Nuclear Questions(from a previous, previous blog)

More important to me in the overall argument pro/con on the dropping of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the morality of un-strategic bombing(it's only strategic when you can hit the target you are aiming at, not the three block radius around it). Why do the two nuclear bombings arouse such emotional feeling? The bombings of Tokyo, Dresden and other major Axis cities certainly killed larger numbers of people. Would the condemnation been the same had it been Germany and not Japan? There are arguments that the atomic attacks were racially motivated or motivated in revenge for Pearl Harbor. Is that the case? Were the Americans motivated by racial or vengeance motivation for the atomic attacks? What if the last two bombings had been the conventional "fire-bombings" like the ones that leveled Tokyo? Would that have aroused the same anger that the atomic bombs would have? If so why? Where the fire-bombings then racially or vengeance motivated as well? Why would killing thousands with one bomb be less moral and more "hateful" than killing thousands with hundreds of bombs? The atomic bombs used against the two cities were almost equal in power to a traditional bombing sortie. The US turned Dresden into an easy bake oven, but little is heard of it(though it is one of the more well known bombing attack by Americans against the Axis(other than the Tokyo raid, the Oil Field Raid and of course the two atom bombs. Is it simply the attempt to inject morality into international politics? The two bombs have become something of a political hot rail. Would this have become such a major spot of contention if the United States had not gotten involved in Vietnam? Is the historical American fear/opposition to the atomic bomb cause by it was the least censored visually of any American bombing attack? Were American in the fifties truly willing to use the atomic bomb or was that the politically/socially safe thing to say? Were there any differences of opinion between the use of conventional bombing and atomic bombing?