Rotter said while his work focuses on the atomic bomb, he includes the firebombing of Tokyo to give context to the use of the atomic bomb. "Above all, I wish to argue that as bad as the atomic bomb was, the more significant threshold of terror had less to do with the weapon used to create it than its target" Rotter said. “The great crime of World War II, indeed, I think the great crime of the 20th century, was the decision made by someone, made by everyone, that noncombatants could be targeted from the air — an approach that rendered them particularly defenseless.” University of Wisconsin senior Ed Engler agreed, especially with Rotter’s point that the use of the atomic bomb did not stand as distinct in the minds of Americans in 1945 and the following years as it does now. Full Article at The Badger Herald