• NoLifeGaming@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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

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      9 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.