it's easy to put it into cold hard facts and figures and erase the human moral decision that was made at that time. It's a horrible weapon and a shame it was used. Was it "right" in the long one to kill 100,000 in order to "save" an "estimated" higher number? That I think is an impossible question to answer. It's done and hopefully a weapon so horrible is never used again.

Anyone ever hear about the guy who was at both sites? He was on vacation in Hiroshima on the edge of the blast radius and suffered flash burns. He went home to Nagasaki and was actually in his bosses office trying to explain what had happened when the second bomb was dropped. That one didn't do any serious harm to him. He lived for awhile only dying last year (which is why the story is fresh in my memory).

Bow ties are coool.