Wow, what a mess of an off topic thread this has become, I'm surprised it hasn't been locked.
Back to the original topic. No, I don't really think the atomic bombings of Japan should be modeled, because well they'd be very boring missions. Fly your B-29 for a few hours over the center of a city, then push a button. Gee thats sounds fun.
However, I find the moral objections about it very strange indeed. Its OK to model conventional strategic bombing of cities in IL-2 but nuclear ones are off limits? Yes industrial parks were targeted (by the US, UK indiscriminately bombed Germany at night) but bombs very often missed, and even if they hit their targets, civilian works were killed. So essentially your saying its OK that strategic bombing is in the game, as long as were only killing civilians a few at a time. And just forget about the fact that several times more civilians were killed by conventional bombs than nuclear. And that at least 200 times more civilians were killed by means other than nuclear bombs.
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