Tech_Esq
Sic Semper Tyrannis!
German war criminals were hanged because Jewish people died in work camps. The same people who hanged the Germans vaporized some 350000 Japanese civilian men, women, and children. Seems somewhat hypocritical to me but I'm like that you know, kinda fair minded.
Focus on the manner of death is pretty stupid. The fact is we were "vaporizing" cities on a routine basis at that point in the war. The fire bombing of Dresden, Tokyo and a list of other Japanese cities are evidence of that. The wounds suffered by the victims of the fire bombing are no less horrific than the radiation sickness suffered by the nuke bomb victims. It was novel though. As was the attack. Instead of taking huge squadrons of planes and lots of bombs to do the same thing, it now took one of each.
I'm sure the Japanese took note of the math and the extrapolated the result. At any rate, I certainly don't get your point if all you are saying is a bunch of people died at one time, therefore it's a war crime. We were killing that many people everyday in Japan. You're just improperly focused on two novel uses of a new weapon to do it.