It doesn't really make sense that it is easier to take down 10 bombers than 1, does it? If you fire an imprecise weapon at a group of 10 bombers, your odds of

It doesn't really make sense that it is easier to take down 10 bombers than 1, does it? If you fire an imprecise weapon at a group of 10 bombers, your odds of hitting one of them can be up to 10x what it is if the same weapon fired at a single bomber. If you have limited ammunition, it is therefore sensible to wait for the group of 10 before firing. So it's important to differential between potential destruction and actual destruction. The firebombings did incontrovertibly more damage, and after the war both governments had reason to not emphasize this. Yeah. The USA invented a weapon (napalm) specifically intended to target the poorest neighborhoods in Japan. And those neighborhoods were so vulnerable exactly because the Japanese government didn't care about the people living there. It was much safer to talk about how big and threatening nuclear bombs were.