While I get your point I feel like using the nukes as an example is bad. Mostly because it was the least bad option for dealing with Japan during WW2, since it’s almost guaranteed that leaving them be after pushing them out of the mainland would be resulted in them trying again later, and doing an invasion of the Japanese home islands would’ve been a butchery comparable to few others. Japan was unlikely to surrender at all unless total annihilation was guaranteed, that’s the promise of the nukes one to show off another to show the promise.

Fact of the matter is the war on the Pacific was a shit show. For example Japanese POWs were rather rare because they had a nasty tendency towards faking surrender, injury, or death and then trying to kill medics or GIs, so they were simply killed because it was the most likely end result regardless. Another factor is that Japanese civilians on newly occupied islands had a tendency of killing themselves or turning into guerrilla. And then finally the US military hasn’t produced purple heart metals since WW2 since they produced so many in anticipation of an invasion of the Japanese home islands.

Point is while using the imprisonment of Japanese Americans is a prime example of the feds fucking up and doing horrific shit. The nuking of Japan itself isn’t, it was a way of getting the Japanese to just stop. They probably would’ve wiped themselves out rather than surrender without the nukes or at the very least bleed themselves down pretty thoroughly. The Japanese Imperial Cult was fucking psychotic and really needs to be factored in before you talk about anything done during WW2 against the Japanese.