alt Hacker NewsCould you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
This comment is simply stating historical facts. It's not unsubstantive. The actions of the US military in this particular case are relevant to this story. The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II caused an estimated 140,000 deaths in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki by the end of 1945, according to some sources.