Dresden was an inevitable action against the Germans after the atrocities they had committed - destroying a single city compared to the attempted genocide involving millions is, in my book, getting off lightly - and you can't start claiming Geneva rules or similar when you've just spent several years cheerfully ignoring them while trying to take over the world and wipe out the people you don't like. Neither was Japan a war crime. Lots of people will jump on the anti-nuclear bandwagon and shriek about how inhumane the bombings were, and the arguments against them usually involve the estimated number of people the Allies would have had to kill if they had followed a traditional ground invasion plan. However, what the anti-nuclear brigade cannot answer is this - if dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian area was so outrageous/ inhumane/ etc. - why did the Allies have to drop two? These are the sort of facts that get ignored when folks want to push their own agenda. Especially once all who were physically present are dead and can't argue." --- It's unbelievable that some people still think bombing of Japan was justified.