Peter Kuznick: Why Did Americans Accept Barbaric Slaughter of Japanese Civilians?
In 1939, Roosevelt decried targeting civilians as “inhuman barbarism”. In 1945, the U.S. firebombed Japanese cities and dropped nuclear bombs.
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