Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditional Surrender (2020)

Re:Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditi... by M95D on Monday October 30, 2023 @08:15AM (#38068437)

> had H&N not been atom bombed they would have been firebombed .. with very similar levels of death and follow on disease.

Wrong! Don't be ignorant.

An entire city can't be firebombed by a single plane and that plane can't drop all it's bombs at the same time everywhere. People would run to underground shelters once they hear the first explosions and they would survive. A group of bombers would also trigger an air raid alarm and people would have even more time to run to shelters and survive.

This is a quote from Wikipedia:

> The air raid warning had been cleared at 07:31, and many people were outside, going about their activities.

I'm not even going to mention the difference in after-bombing disease.

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Re:Hiroshima and the Myths of Military Targets and Unconditi... by tzs on Monday October 30, 2023 @12:16PM (#38071533)

> An entire city can't be firebombed by a single plane

The Allies had more than one plane, so that's not a problem.

They used around 300 planes for the 1945-03-10 firebombing of Tokyo, for example. That one raid killed about 100 000 people, destroyed 267 000 buildings, and left over a million people homeless.

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