re: Tucker Carlson has divided conservative social media with his take on the atomic bomb

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You should know though. The precept is not honestly debatable if one examines the alternatives.

Japan was keenly aware an American invasion was forthcoming. Japan was in no way shape or form ready to surrender. Quite the opposite. Their aim was to render the American cost of invasion so atrocious as to lead the American public to abort the effort. Casualties accompanying an invasion would have dwarfed those of Nagasaki/Hiroshima. Civilian casualties accompanying an invasion would have dwarfed those of Nagasaki/Hiroshima.

If one desires to retrospectively reconsider ethicality of our actions in WWII, discussions of firebombing (Tokyo, Hamburg, etc) are certainly open issues. But whereas Tokyo's firebombing (which killed more civilians than Hiroshima/Nagasaki combined) carried no associated expectation of ending the war, the A-Bombs did.

In contrast to Tucker's idiotic viewpoint, the Hiroshima/Nagasaki actions were far and away the most humane way of ending an inhumane war.

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You're wasting your time.

I don't know what Huckster Carlson has in the way of hypnotic skills, but he could tell them that they should all go to the main street of their town, stick their pecker out of their pants, hang a live lobster off of it, and parade up and down the street like that to protest the Deep State, and they would do it without question. (In fact, he probably will eventually get around to telling them that.)

When that guy is involved they abandon all reason and logic. Every time.

Just ridicule them and move on. You won't change their minds (because when Huckster Carlson is involved, they have no minds).