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Comment by defrost

1 day ago

I'm looking back several hours here and not seeing where this is laid out.

I'm also curious as to why what the US did to Hiroshima is an unthinkable nightmare scenarios whereas what the US did to Tokyo is not (and nor is what the US did to 71 other cities in Japan also not that).

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stavros  1 day ago

Do you see a difference in razing a city with one bomb in an instant or with thousands of bombs over months?

  • defrost  21 hours ago

    > with thousands of bombs over months?

    Say what now?

      Tokyo was bombed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) ..

  The strikes conducted by the USAAF on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, constitute the single deadliest and most destructive aerial bombing raid in human history.[1] Sixteen square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.

    ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

    > Do you see a difference in razing a city with one bomb in an instant or with thousands of bombs

    Tokyo vs. Hiroshima - https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/22/tokyo-hiroshima/

    Do you?

    (Aside from thousands of conventional bombs being significantly cheaper and lower tech than a nuclear bomb).

    • jambalaya8  20 hours ago

      to be fair a link from september 2014 (almost twelve years ago) about things that occurred in 1945 (almost (relatively) a century ago), in the brains of people that were not even alive yet, and even if they were, unable to process the events through anything like a remotely similar scope or in a contextually contemporaneous way, or even relatively approaching the neurological pathways that someone from that time would have used, is...

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  • wredcoll  7 hours ago

    One bomber is considerably harder to defend against, otherwise, I don't think the people who died really cared.

  • account42  1 day ago

    The human suffering in both cases is the same but one ended the war while the other did not.