The Nobel Peace Prize this year went to a group of atom bomb survivors in Japan who have advocated for bombs not to be used, on account of the suffering it might well cause:
https://www.youtube.com/live/5UNqMEquEPk?si=iNXnn4oGz4AKxNpy
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There was a TV show in the 1950's dramatizing the story of a survivor:
https://youtu.be/KPFXa2vTErc?si=3tAkmdpb_sgf5taX
I think we should stop killing puppies too. There are thousands more like me. Should we get a prize?
Plans to use chemical weapons against Japan were later declassified, although it is not clear to what extent this would have happened:
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1998/january/most-deadly-plan
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2015/august/another-alternative-poison-gas
The Japanese committed a lot of war crimes, including the use of chemical and biological weapons which may have killed more people than the nuclear bombings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
This is also some interesting history, the United States came up with a novel plan to weaponize bats for use against Japan:
https://youtu.be/0WLBeWf8K_M?si=Yynj57OzYZD9D8HI
The special torpedoes needed for the shallow depths at Pearl Harbor were designed and built at Nagasaki.
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