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defrosttoday at 1:13 PM1 replyview on HN

> with thousands of bombs over months?

Say what now?

  Tokyo was bombed by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) ..

  The strikes conducted by the USAAF on the night of 9–10 March 1945, codenamed Operation Meetinghouse, constitute the single deadliest and most destructive aerial bombing raid in human history.[1] Sixteen square miles (41 km2; 10,000 acres) of central Tokyo was destroyed, leaving an estimated 100,000 civilians dead and over one million homeless.
~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

> Do you see a difference in razing a city with one bomb in an instant or with thousands of bombs

Tokyo vs. Hiroshima - https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/22/tokyo-hiroshima/

Do you?

(Aside from thousands of conventional bombs being significantly cheaper and lower tech than a nuclear bomb).


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jambalaya8today at 1:58 PM

to be fair a link from september 2014 (almost twelve years ago) about things that occurred in 1945 (almost (relatively) a century ago), in the brains of people that were not even alive yet, and even if they were, unable to process the events through anything like a remotely similar scope or in a contextually contemporaneous way, or even relatively approaching the neurological pathways that someone from that time would have used, is...