I'm sure all the innocent civilians (including many inarguably-innocent children) that we vaporized appreciated the message 🙄👍 And the firebombing being more destructive isn't a valid excuse, it's just an additional (and analogous) atrocity. Two wrongs don't make a right! Are you seriously arguing that the fact that we don't discuss the firebombings as much makes it OK to have dropped nuclear ordinance on entire cities?

I obviously agree that Imperial Japan and its military was responsible for unknowable amounts of harm, but there must have been some way to show off the capabilities of nukes from the tests to the world and at least give them a chance to surrender before going to this extreme step.