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Originally Posted by KWIL
Be careful if you read it. It does stick in your memory.
Not as much as what they did to the POWs and any other unfortunates they came across. Remember the Burma railway.
9–10 March 1945, is the single most destructive bombing raid in human history. Of central Tokyo. 16 square miles were destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.
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Yes. The incendiaries dropped and all of the close packed wooden buildings resulted in a firestorm. More died than initially at Hiroshima.
The Japanese mentality at the time was by our modern standards unspeakably cruel. That cruelty was returned in spades. No-one can be proud of what happened. War is not a sensible way to solve political differences, especially for the cannon fodder the elite send in to settle their arguments and the collateral civilian damage that also results. The largest ever nuclear weapon tested was a 50 megaton (Russia) We now 100 megaton bombs which are over 6000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb
. I really don't agree with anyone having a weapon like this. It's just wrong somehow.