Atomic bomb survivors want an apology from Obama.

[Final-Fan]

JRPGfan said:

Differnt situations you cant really compair?
One is a military base, with tiny amount of people (like 2000 people died).
vs main city(s), where hundres of thusands of people died, and millions where made sick by radiation poisoning.You understand that "hundres of thusands" (potentially millions of sick people) > "2000 ish" right?
You also understand in war, in general you attack military with military, and leave the civilians alone.
The A bombs, where targeted at hurting civilians.
I dont think he should apology for others mistakes or choices.
However the question you raised is just wack.

1.  I believe that the justification given was that they were targeting a military target (naval base, military factory, etc.) that just happened to have a city full of civilians around it as collateral damage. 

2.  The alternative to shocking the Japanese into surrender with the A-bomb was to launch a full scale invasion.  Estimates suggested that there would be not only hundreds of thousands of Allied casualties, but millions of Japanese ones, mostly civilian.  I believe the population was getting close to starvation at the time.  (During the occupation after the surrender, the USA shipped in massive quantities of food.  If I remamber correctly, and I may be misremembering, the Japanese even nicknamed Americans "the rice people" for the rice they were given.)  Therefore, dropping the A-bombs counterintuitively probably saved many Japanese lives as well as American ones. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

3.  I don't think even the most unrealistically high estimates of Japanese casualties due to ratiation sickness etc. pump the ultimate casualty numbers up to a million. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Post-attack_casualties