@Dermot

A fetus is a clump of cells

An adult human is a clump of cells too.

Japan would not be as prosperous as it is today where it not for the fact that they lost, and lost brutally at the hands of the US in all it's atomic fury. You see, Japan was a vicious and authoritarian empire at the time of WWII, the violence that Japan unleashed upon the world resulted in the deaths of millions and millions of people, including their own. Democracy would never have been achieved had they not been OBLITERATED BY THE POWER OF THE ATOMIC BOMB. They would NEVER have surrendered and they would have NEVER given up their imperialist ways.

In sum, it is good that the US bombed them with nukes and it is good that they where defeated, for if that had not been the case, there would have been far more casualties than there where believe it or not.