I was going to go into a little speech with this thread, but Rota pretty much beat me to what I was going to say.

I'm not a fan of the concept of "acceptable losses". I don't think there's ever an acceptably "proper" time to use a weapon like a nuke.

Some could rule the pros and cons of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but I think it's too easy to do as emotionally-detached future observers than it would be as actual participants or victims of the same event to make any truly insightful analysis.

However, by using them when they did, the US brought a lot of world awareness to mass-destruction weapons which I think has proved beneficial in the long run, opposed to finding out at a later date when such a lesson could have proven far more disastrous.