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Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by dboreham on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:25PM (#19118304)
>The bombing of Tokyo, Dresden, Hamburg, London, Coventry, etc. were all attacks on civilians.

And at the time it appears the military leaders saw the atomic bomb as primary an optimization measure for carrying out this kind of city-wide attack.

(See : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_of_War)

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Re:Conversations among German Nuclear Physicists at Farm Hal... by theptip on Friday February 08, 2019 @03:59PM (#19118613)
It's worth mentioning that more civilians died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in either of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo). That was a conventional bombing raid (essentially covering the city in napalm).

However the psychological impact of the nuclear attacks being a single bomb is important to consider as well.

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