[Phys-L] Warning: Political was: Re: Frank Oppenheimer
> On Mar 12, 2024, at 14:06, Rick Strickert <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>
> wrote:
>
> While Hiroshima may have been considered "pristine" in the sense of not yet
> having been fire-bombed as other major Japanese cities, like Tokyo, had been,
> it was not "pristine" in the sense of lacking military value. Hiroshima was
> involved in military weapons production, with workers' homes near ammunition
> factories. Hiroshima contained the 2nd Army Headquarters for southern Japan,
> and was also an assembly area for Japanese troops.
So?
bc … read this decades ago, but didn’t know it’d escaped firebombing.
Note: defenders of the use of nuclear claim it shortened the war. They would
be angry if they learned it was the Soviet declaration that shortened the war.
https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/soviet-japan-and-the-termination-of-the-second-world-war/
<https://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/soviet-japan-and-the-termination-of-the-second-world-war/>
Note also, many more casualties in Tokyo fire bombing than caused by nuclear.
It didn’t result in the Japanese collapse.
Others have proposed the use was more likely a warning to the Soviet.
“…. was the single most destructive bombing raid in human history."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo>
bc … additionally thinks the IDF wishes to beat this record.
Here’s an anti-revisionist article:
https://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/kort.html
<https://www.bu.edu/historic/hs/kort.html>