Yeah, the civilians and especially the children should've overthrown the government. They were totally asking to get nuked.
Using nukes may have been the least-bad long term option. That doesn't change that it was an atrocity.
If it is the least-bad long term option, that makes it in context the ethical choice. Hence, not an atrocity.
The thing is you have no way to know that in advance. And people may disagree what "least-bad" even means, it's extremely subjective.
I'm gonna disagree that deliberately killing innocent people is ever an ethically correct choice.
This is more or less the trolley problem, so as you say it is entirely subjective. We're just going to have to agree to disagree :)
Yeah, the civilians and especially the children should've overthrown the government. They were totally asking to get nuked.
Using nukes may have been the least-bad long term option. That doesn't change that it was an atrocity.