oh please, check the edit. you're not telling me anything i didn't already know. I actually studied history.
One of us is a graduate of the United States Air Force's Squadron Officer School. The other of us is pretending (s)he can offer lectures in air power. To be abundantly clear, I'm the first one of us.
But since you don't think the bombs were necessary, I need to know: which American serviceman's who had their lives saved should have been expended for your short-sighted intellectual vanity? I need to know who you are willing to throw on the fire. Clearly you have some people in mind. Who were the expendables? What are their names? You have a B.A. in history after all...