Well that take is lacking some nuance, Luke. I believe Hiroshima was used for military purposes. And at least ending the war early saved the lives of US servicemen, and also, I would argue in a way helped the Japanese, as it meant the Russians didn't get a chance to invade Hokkaido. Japan could have ended up partitioned like Germany. It also gave the Japanese authorities a face saving way to surrender, and enabled the US to keep the country largely intact, and soon able to ramp up to peacetime rebuilding. Obviously it would have been better if there had been no war and no need for anything so horrific. But it's not fair to point out the Hiroshima bomb as somehow exceptionally brutal in a period of time where plenty of brutal acts were committed by all sides.