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> willing to destroy Japanese cities merely as a show of force We had already destroyed most Japanese cities with fire bombs. Hiroshima was one of the few citi
by umvi 6y ago
> willing to destroy Japanese cities merely as a show of force
We had already destroyed most Japanese cities with fire bombs. Hiroshima was one of the few cities specifically spared from fire bombs
- garmaine 6y agoFor example, the fire bombing of Tokyo killed more in a single day than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki (though radiation sickness would eventually bring the Hiroshima total to slightly larger). The only real difference with the atomic bombings was it was one bomb from one plane.