Oh I agree that Hiroshima & Nagasaki were firebombed. Well, I could see them dropping nukes on there, and then wonder why they're not going off. ALIENS. Then plan B: firebomb the hell outta the place, claim it was nuked, then go back to the drawing board, trying to figure out "what went wrong" or "why the UFOs prevented us from annihilating hundreds of thousands in THIS particular manner" and instead have them resort to murdering them much more personally and individually.

It probably has to do with a clause of RESPONSIBILITY for one's actions. Drop a nuke, who's responsible for that huge number of deaths? The dude that pressed the button? The dude who gave the order? Shared responsibility of course, but that's a darn few people to spread it between them. With firebombing, the karma attribution becomes both clearer and less problematic.

And yes, this is acceptable middle ground. But I never negotiate: I say my viewpoint, is all. ;-)

Whether nukes exist but can't get used in warfare because aliens won't allow it, or they don't and are made up, either way the footage looks fake and is used to instill terror into the populations out of thin air. There is no danger.

Oh and isn't that terrorism to begin with.