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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by huevosabio on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:25PM (#30363672)
Dan Carlin has a fantastic podcast episode on this, he called it Logical Insanity [0]. The main argument being that by the time of the atomic bombs, all powers had scaled their "strategic bombings" of civilians to a level that made the atomic bombs just a small step in the logical conclusion of the path of the war.

We should not judge the atomic bombings without the context of US, UK, USSR and Japanese bombings of civilians.

[0] https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-42-blitz-...

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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by beerandt on Thursday February 17, 2022 @01:52AM (#30370248)
He describes the fire bombing of Tokyo in a way (using primary sources) that definitely makes getting nuked seem not so bad by comparison. Both physically and psychologically.
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