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The Japanese were actively trying to surrender to the Allies when the bombs fell on them.
You're getting caught up in the double negative, the post you're responding to is ironclad.
it is my bad for constructing such an atrocious sentence though
I do it all the time. It's obviously a sign of unbounded genius.
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and to that end, nuking two cities is better than one, right? really make sure the whole world knows who the mad dog boss is.
They wanted to do bomb blast damage studies on virgin targets. No cap.
A ghoul might argue nukes have still only ever been scientifically tested and their true tactical and strategic complexities are still entirely theoretical, thus revealing that a strong motivator to use nukes remains contained entirely within nukes.
Well that was always the impression that I got. It was the way that the Burgerlanders signalled to the rest of the world (especially the USSR) that they were the new game in town and not to fuck with them.