Thank you for saying in text what I've been trying to say for a while. Dresden was the "keep fighting and we wipe you off the face of the earth." Dresden was not the pure evil "OMG USA bad" people want to make it out to be. Same thing with the second atom bomb. One bomb and you can tell your citizens it was a fluke or bury the news. The second now becomes a message: we are ready to obliterate you if you do not surrender. (That message worked for those of you asking. The day after the first bombing the Japanese command voted to keep fighting) We can debate the ethics until there is no more history. But these bombings saved us from an invasion of Japan, millions of casualties and who knows how many years. And a possible war with the USSR. All wars suck. And sometimes in wars there are well defined good and evil.