| Of course it was an act of terrorism. It was a deliberate act of targeting civilians in the knowledge that death and injury would result. The fact that the weapon used was new and more devasting than anything then known to the world was an aggravating rather than an ameliorating factor. That said, I wonder to what extent Tibbets appreciated what he was doing. It may be that, in his mind, he was actually reducing the loss of human lives by accelerating the end of the war. |