I'm glad I'm not the only one Russ- I used to have a student at Nova [damn good English speaker but as right wing as they come] who used to always bring up the A bomb and how bad the allies were and how it was a war crime. We weren't supposed to even mention the war in the conversation room but it always turned to it when he was there. One day I just asked him if he'd ever seen the state of allied POW's held by the Japanese. he just stopped dead [he obviously had]. I just said that that and the casualties incurred in the pacific campaign had removed any sympathy the allies might have had for the civil population on Japan. however the 'Culture" rule still applied to bombing- Nara and Kyoto were specifically excluded. Funnily enough he stopped raving but occasionally he'd be in denial over Nanking, Singapore etc..............