Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by joering2 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:39PM
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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 we coming for your citizens. Wouldn't that be more effective (assuming Japan would not surrender) and more humane ?
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Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by mbg721 on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:41PM
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That's the whole question with Dresden (and "Slaughterhouse Five").
Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by Yiin on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:50PM
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The 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.
Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by trogdor on Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:32PM
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The 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.
Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by Aunche on Saturday May 27, 2023 @11:54PM
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They did bomb the largest military factories. That's why they moved their production to the cities.
Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials)
by dralley on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:01AM
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Japanese 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.