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It will always boggled me why they dropped it on cities of citizens? Why not bomb their biggest military factories, wiping out their capacity and warning - next
by joering2 3y ago
It will always boggled me why they dropped it on cities of citizens? Why not bomb their biggest military factories, wiping out their capacity and warning - next we coming for your citizens. Wouldn't that be more effective (assuming Japan would not surrender) and more humane ?
- mbg721 3y agoThat's the whole question with Dresden (and "Slaughterhouse Five").
- Yiin 3y agoThe reasoning was to pick biggest cities that were not completely destroyed yet (as Tokyo and others were in pretty bad shape by that time). Military bases are small targets compared to a city, and I assume they wanted to make a statement.
- trogdor 3y agoThe United States wanted to drop the bomb on a relatively undisturbed city so they could better-evaluate its effects. If you drop a bomb of never-before-seen power on a city that is already rubble, it’s much harder to determine how much damage it caused.
- Aunche 3y agoThey did bomb the largest military factories. That's why they moved their production to the cities.
- dralley 3y agoJapanese military industrial production was heavily distributed to tens of thousands of small workshops with only a few workers in each and minimal mechanization. The cities with civilians were themselves the factories.