jeffw@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotionswww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square211fedilinkarrow-up1313arrow-down111
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minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 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.
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.