Atomic bombs aren't nearly as destructive as propaganda would have you believe. Had so much of their buildings not been made of paper and the thinnest lightest wood they could get away with, most of those cities would have survived. It wasn't so much the blast itself that destroyed them (though that definitely did a number on the paper) it was the firestorm afterwards. Post-bombing photos of both cities show that all the western-style buildings remained standing. Their windows were blown out and sometimes their roof was damaged depending on how close they were to ground zero, but they were still standing. It's just that 99.9% of those cities were traditional Japanese construction and were completely consumed in the firestorm.
> Post-bombing photos of both cities show that all the western-style buildings remained standing.
The what. Western = one or two story residential from red ceramic or sandstone brick, or (most of the US) wooden framing. About the only buildings made with reinforced concrete in the west are skyscrapers, compared to the rest of the world where reinforced concrete is the norm because of residential highrises. It's even visible in the cement production statistic.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267364/world-cement-production-by-country/
Any third world city with rconcrete highrises would most likely be a Beirut where only the first building line in a circle around the explosion took significant damage.
Unlike dense urban highrises where windows will shatter, most dwellers in wooden framing houses wouldn't even wake up.
American cities with enormous amounts of housing made of sawdust and glue (aka OSB) would not only be totally flattened by the shockwave, they would also burn like a giant bonfire afterwards. Just look at what happens to american suburbs when there is a wildfire. Theres nothing left of them except the concrete baseplate.
Japan had its own atomic bomb research and did not doubt the feasibility of the atomic bomb, but did not believe it would be possible in the world during the war
Even when the US announced that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an atomic bomb, the military and government were skeptical
They only believed it when the army's atomic bomb research team visited a hospital at the hypocentre and found that X-rays showed a strong reaction
Hiroshima's next target was originally Kokura, but the Army's ki-100 unit and the Navy's A6M unit prevented this
>Hiroshima's next target was originally Kokura, but the Army's ki-100 unit and the Navy's A6M unit prevented this
Wasn't it literally just bad weather?
Controversial take:
Nagasaki should not have been hit. As the historical center of European trade to Japan it should have been left alone. It had some of the only pre-Restoration Christian architecture in all of Japan. No other Japanese city had a longer history of interacting with the West for trade; it’s a shame we glassed part of it. Luckily most of the blast was confined to a valley but still.
If there are 50 major cities in a xenophobic country, don’t nuke the one that was the most saddened to see you leave, is all I am saying.
>The entire population of Japan is a proper military target... There are no civilians in Japan. We are making war and making it in the all-out fashion which saves American lives, shortens the agony which war is and seeks to bring about an enduring peace. We intend to seek out and destroy the enemy wherever he or she is, in the greatest possible numbers, in the shortest possible time.
How the frick are the nips going to touch a B29? I think they had a few fighters that could maintain the ceiling (but not the speed) and catch them under the best circumstances in a dive.
>subhuman apes
>air defenses
>subhuman apes
What the air defense doing?
how come the trees seem completely intact
Picture taken a month or so after the latest bombing.
Atomic bombs aren't nearly as destructive as propaganda would have you believe. Had so much of their buildings not been made of paper and the thinnest lightest wood they could get away with, most of those cities would have survived. It wasn't so much the blast itself that destroyed them (though that definitely did a number on the paper) it was the firestorm afterwards. Post-bombing photos of both cities show that all the western-style buildings remained standing. Their windows were blown out and sometimes their roof was damaged depending on how close they were to ground zero, but they were still standing. It's just that 99.9% of those cities were traditional Japanese construction and were completely consumed in the firestorm.
> Post-bombing photos of both cities show that all the western-style buildings remained standing.
The what. Western = one or two story residential from red ceramic or sandstone brick, or (most of the US) wooden framing. About the only buildings made with reinforced concrete in the west are skyscrapers, compared to the rest of the world where reinforced concrete is the norm because of residential highrises. It's even visible in the cement production statistic.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/267364/world-cement-production-by-country/
Any third world city with rconcrete highrises would most likely be a Beirut where only the first building line in a circle around the explosion took significant damage.
Unlike dense urban highrises where windows will shatter, most dwellers in wooden framing houses wouldn't even wake up.
wooden framing houses wouldn't even wake up.
because they will die instantly*
American cities with enormous amounts of housing made of sawdust and glue (aka OSB) would not only be totally flattened by the shockwave, they would also burn like a giant bonfire afterwards. Just look at what happens to american suburbs when there is a wildfire. Theres nothing left of them except the concrete baseplate.
Because the trees weren't bombed
St Petersburg in a few months
Japan had its own atomic bomb research and did not doubt the feasibility of the atomic bomb, but did not believe it would be possible in the world during the war
Even when the US announced that the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was an atomic bomb, the military and government were skeptical
They only believed it when the army's atomic bomb research team visited a hospital at the hypocentre and found that X-rays showed a strong reaction
Hiroshima's next target was originally Kokura, but the Army's ki-100 unit and the Navy's A6M unit prevented this
I forget, was Kokura also on the divert list for the first day of bombing (hiroshima)?
>Hiroshima's next target was originally Kokura, but the Army's ki-100 unit and the Navy's A6M unit prevented this
Wasn't it literally just bad weather?
Controversial take:
Nagasaki should not have been hit. As the historical center of European trade to Japan it should have been left alone. It had some of the only pre-Restoration Christian architecture in all of Japan. No other Japanese city had a longer history of interacting with the West for trade; it’s a shame we glassed part of it. Luckily most of the blast was confined to a valley but still.
If there are 50 major cities in a xenophobic country, don’t nuke the one that was the most saddened to see you leave, is all I am saying.
Nagasaki was a center for japanese christcuckery, losing it was a strategic gain for the japanese people.
>The entire population of Japan is a proper military target... There are no civilians in Japan. We are making war and making it in the all-out fashion which saves American lives, shortens the agony which war is and seeks to bring about an enduring peace. We intend to seek out and destroy the enemy wherever he or she is, in the greatest possible numbers, in the shortest possible time.
Harry F. Cunningham
Why do they need to drop time bombs?
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How the frick are the nips going to touch a B29? I think they had a few fighters that could maintain the ceiling (but not the speed) and catch them under the best circumstances in a dive.
They only had a few guns that could reach high enough to touch them and they weren't going to give away their positions for a trio of bombers.