What does that have to do with ANYTHING? The point isn't revenge, though that was of course in the minds of lots of people. It was breaking the power of Imperial Japan, which manages not to be the most evil regime in the 20th century solely because the fucking Nazis existed, forever.How many civilians were killed at Pearl Harbor?. a thousand or so. How many Japanese civilians were killed in the meeting house and other firebombings? about a million. We are talking about a revenge ratio of civilians of nearly a thousend
And if you RELLY want to play the numbers game then add in the tens of millions of civilians the Japanese murdered in China and Southeast Asia. Or the POWs they were deliberately starving and working to death.