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He was wrong, since the Manhattan project was and is still celebrated as a great achievement. Hiroshima is considered a regrettable necessity. Anyone willing to
by yostrovs 7y ago
He was wrong, since the Manhattan project was and is still celebrated as a great achievement. Hiroshima is considered a regrettable necessity. Anyone willing to read about fire bombing of cities before the A-bomb would consider it a reasonable alternative.
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- BuildTheRobots 7y ago> On the night of February 13, the British Bomber Command hit Dresden with an 800-bomber air raid, dropping some 2,700 tons of bombs, including large numbers of incendiaries. Aided by weather conditions, a firestorm developed, incinerating tens of thousands of people. The U.S. Eighth Air Force followed the next day with another 400 tons of bombs and carried out yet another raid by 210 bombers on February 15. It is thought that some 25,000–35,000 civilians died in Dresden in the air attacks, though some estimates are as high as 250,000, given the influx of undocumented refugees that had fled to Dresden from the Eastern Front. Most of the victims were women, children, and the elderly.