system
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human
ELI5: Why is it that we prosecute old war criminals for crimes against humanity and killing innocent civilians but America is allowed to Nuke 2 cities of innocent people and get away with it ?
gpt
Your view of the events you refer to is historically inaccurate. It is not the case  that 'no one blinked an eye'; there was quite a lot of soul-searching before the bombs were dropped. And you leave out the context of a desperate and bloody struggle with an enemy apparently ready to sacrifice the entire civilian population rather than admit defeat, who was able to send out an almost endless stream of kamikaze suicide bombers who inflicted heavy casualties on the US Navy. The alternative to this prospect was to shock the leaders into seeing the pointlessness of continued fighting - which the bombs accomplished, dreadful though their consequences were; thus, it is believed, saving countless more lives on both sides.