The firebombings of places like Tokyo was just as bad if not worse than the Nukes, though imho. They get all the attention because of the sheer destructive awe, but for example the firebombing of Tokyo over 2 nights in March 1945 left 100,000 dead, a million homeless, and burned out 16 square miles. The heat from the flames causes a convection system of hot air to rise extremely rapidly and displace the colder air, which forms basically a mini-hurricane made out of fire, where even if you are trying to shelter indoors, the flames will bust through the windows and suck you out into the conflagration.
If I recall correctly from the Oliver Stone special, one of the higher ups in the US airforce referred to the raids directly as "terror bombing raids" or something to that effect in official documents
The firebombings of places like Tokyo was just as bad if not worse than the Nukes, though imho. They get all the attention because of the sheer destructive awe, but for example the firebombing of Tokyo over 2 nights in March 1945 left 100,000 dead, a million homeless, and burned out 16 square miles. The heat from the flames causes a convection system of hot air to rise extremely rapidly and displace the colder air, which forms basically a mini-hurricane made out of fire, where even if you are trying to shelter indoors, the flames will bust through the windows and suck you out into the conflagration.
If I recall correctly from the Oliver Stone special, one of the higher ups in the US airforce referred to the raids directly as "terror bombing raids" or something to that effect in official documents
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Yeh but it’s not a binary choice of firebomb or nuclear bomb. You can just not bomb babies?