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Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials) by ThrowawayR2 on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:17AM (#36101368)
What's your point? Allied firebombing had leveled nearly every other city in Japan already and those cities were, unsurprisingly, full of civilians too. Much more Japanese were incinerated as a result of firebombing than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.

Civilian casualties were not a huge concern when waging war for anyone (and certainly not for the Japanese military!) so bringing that up is anachronistic thinking.

Re:Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and Testimonials) by rocqua on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:49AM (#36101517)
Notably, strategic air power (i.e. mass civilian bombing) is likely rather ineffective [1]. That makes both the nuclear bombs and the firebombings horrible tragedies.

[1] https://acoup.blog/2022/10/21/collections-strategic-airpower...