why drop 2 nukes when they had already dropped 1,667 tons of napalm-filled incendiary bombs on TOKYO, the Capitol, killing more than 100,000 people in a single strike...
...the highest death toll of any air raid during the war, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By comparison, the bombing of Dresden a month earlier had resulted in around 25,000 deaths.
why drop 2 nukes when they had already dropped 1,667 tons of napalm-filled incendiary bombs on TOKYO, the Capitol, killing more than 100,000 people in a single strike...
...the highest death toll of any air raid during the war, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By comparison, the bombing of Dresden a month earlier had resulted in around 25,000 deaths.
why drop 2 nukes when they had already dropped 1,667 tons of napalm-filled incendiary bombs on TOKYO, the Capitol, killing more than 100,000 people in a single strike...
...the highest death toll of any air raid during the war, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By comparison, the bombing of Dresden a month earlier had resulted in around 25,000 deaths.