In his dissenting, and largely ignored, opinion at the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinad Pal of India declared that “if any indiscriminate destruction of civilian life and property is still illegitimate in warfare, then, in the Pacific war, the decision to use the atom bomb is the only near approach to the directives of the German Emperor during the first World War and of the Nazi leaders during the second World War. Nothing like this could be traced to the credit of the present accused.” ‡
