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minus-squareNoLifeGaming@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoThats and interesting point, but it does make me think, why drop the nukes when they can just bomb the manufacturing hubs without incurring as much civilian death
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-23 months ago why drop the nukes when they can just bomb the manufacturing hubs without incurring as much civilian death That’s just it, they had been, for quite a while, but the Japanese would not capitulate. So just bombing military targets with regular ordinance wasn’t enough. The type of bombing was a signal and a message in and of itself.
Thats and interesting point, but it does make me think, why drop the nukes when they can just bomb the manufacturing hubs without incurring as much civilian death
That’s just it, they had been, for quite a while, but the Japanese would not capitulate.
So just bombing military targets with regular ordinance wasn’t enough. The type of bombing was a signal and a message in and of itself.