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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Kind of strange to get fixated on civilian deaths from nukes specifically in WWII - incendiaries and manufactured firestorms completely erased whole cities just as readily. The nukes were just more efficient, but we very successfully killed 100,000 and dehomed 1,000,000 in one spring night in Tokyo 1945. Just with HE and incendiary. 

The strategic bombing of Japan was a far greater cruelty than just dropping Fat Man and Little Boy. It took longer than nukes, but it killed civilians dead just the same. 

The great game changer of nukes is that one plane carries the equivalent destructive power of 334. Or more

There is a level of overrating the Nuclear bomb, maybe it was propaganda to excuse so much money spent (afterall the bomb just HAD to be dropped despite objections by the Manhattan project scientists).

A) there weren't that many, only 3 at most for a very long time, and two were used

B) Required air superiority because only bombers could deliver them, and you don't want to risk that if there is air patrols.

C) lastly kilotons are not megatons as mentioned the potential to kill was way lower

That said nukes really became the end of humanity threat during the hottest moment s of the cold war.

A) tens of thousands of nukes

B) ICBMs that could deliver them anywhere in mere minutes

C) Hydrogen bombs in the megaton range.

I am guessing this is where the confusion comes from, conflating one with the other.

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In the last year Chainsaw has decided to expose himself as someone who knows only about half as much as he thinks he does multiple times. But worse, rather than learning and moving on, he doubles down in his wrongness and sticks his fingers in his ears. He's like an alternative reality Ani. 

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9 hours ago, chainsaw said:

Because he wanted to kill 200,000 civilians instead of end the war. Right? That's my point. It was completely unnecessary to end the war.

Eh, fuck ‘em.  Don’t start shit, won’t be shit.  The ultimate FAFO.



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