will---i know the history around this pretty well, and while you're right, you could still make the arguments i put up above about hiroshima and nagasaki posing basically different ethical problems.
jazz--i don't really follow your argument--on the one hand, it's tautological.
then you make some odd jump to talking about the ban on poison gas.
how do you get from a to b and what are you arguing?
as for the last question--you can set up ethical problems that concern the past without launching into the curious world of counterfactuals.
again, i am not sure what you're arguing.
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