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Another can of sunshine for the German gentleman, please! (media.piefed.social)
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[–] NewDark@lemmings.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I haven't, although I should have made more consideration for that. There's still plenty of degrees here, just like how the firebombing of Japan was also brutal. I think you'll agree that the wholesale evaporation of a city to a nuclear bomb is a little different than bombing a city too hard yeah?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I think you’ll agree that the wholesale evaporation of a city to a nuclear bomb is a little different than bombing a city too hard yeah?

No, not really. More people died in the firebombing of Tokyo than in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki (at least according to some estimates). The main real difference the atom bomb represented was making it a lot easier to inflict such damage with one plane instead of 334 and the implications of that for the future of warfare, not the actual damage done to Japan.