The Luckiest or Unluckiest Man in the World? Tsutomu Yamaguchi, double A-bomb victim

Looking at it from the outside, as a non-participant who has studied (and practised!) game theory and strategic decision making, it seems obvious and clear as to what happened, and the reasons behind it.

When you're on the inside, maybe it's different. Maybe it's hard to divorce feelings from reason, emotion from rationality. Maybe the reasons, although logical and reasonable, don't seem to make sense.

Surely a different viewpoint changes your perception.

Looking at it from the inside, perhaps he can't see what you can see - simply and dispassionately.

Looking at it from the outside, maybe you can't understand how he feels.

The amorality of the atomic bomb is sometimes attributed to civilian casualties, but soldiers are humans too, and saving soldier lives actually has value. And although some might say that soldiers chose to be in the war voluntarily, this should not be used against soldiers. Otherwise less soldiers will volunteer, making the draft inevitable.

And having soldiers and an army in a large country is a necessity. If such a country has an inadequate army it does not get peace, it gets invaded. I do not like to imagine what would have happened to the US if its army were not stronger than the Japanese army.