The employment of the atomic bomb scared Japan into surrendering, which averted the potential deaths of millions of allied soldiers and Japanese civilians. Feudalistic Japan's culture dictated that death was preferable to surrender, and its people wouldn't have just given up after invasion - the majority would have fought to the bitter end, as shown throughout the war in the Pacific. Whilst the bombs killed a horrifying amount and was in my opinion the greatest tragedy of WW2, it saved many more. Honestly, I think it's a much better parallel to what Halsey did than the Mengale/Nuremburg thing Traviss is comparing it to. Unlike the -blam!-s, who murdered out of hatred, Halsey ruined the SII candidates' lives for a reason, just as America did when it dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The difference is, she did it before the event. Imagine if America had invented the atomic bomb before WWII, and had used it on Germany when Hitler had shown signs of expansionism and violating the Treaty of Versailles - bombing Munich so as to convince him not to declare war on Europe. Then it wouldn't have been an act of war, it would have been murder, no matter if Hitler had been about to start the most horrific war in human history. It's the same for Halsey. She took those kids and subjected them to indoctrination and physical brutality, and then ended up killing more than half based on a [i]theory[/i] that the outer colonies would eventually rebel en masse, no matter how likely. That her work ended up instrumental to the survival of humanity is irrelevant; she still committed a crime against said humanity. [i]Dura lex, sed lex*[/i] - The law is hard, but it is the law. [i]Obligatory Latin to prove pseudo-intelligence.[/i]