The picture of the Japanese lady with burns caused by the detonation of an atomic bomb, tugs at the heart of everyone. But a soldier might say, that's what happens in war. A war can't be conducted on the basis of emotional feelings. Otherwise no war would ever start.
Perhaps it's worth mentioning, that the government of our United Kingdom has a fleet of 4 ballistic-missile firing submarines. One of these submarines is on constant patrol at sea, ready to to fire its 16 missiles. Each missile has up to three nuclear warheads, with a yield of 100 kilotons. That's a warhead with about 8 times the explosive power of the bomb that burned the Japanese lady.
Thus our government seems prepared to incinerate not just one lady, but hundreds of thousands of them, or millions, without pity, as a matter of national policy.
Why? Well, that's war. Wasn't Stalin supposed to have remarked: one death is a tragedy, ten thousand is a statistic.
Don't you think that there's some kind of human disconnect between anguishing over one death, while celebrating battles and wars that cause millions of deaths? Or so it seems to me.