• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    7 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.