On: Hiroshima (1946)

[umvi]

> willing to destroy Japanese cities merely as a show of force

We had already destroyed most Japanese cities with fire bombs. Hiroshima was one of the few cities specifically spared from fire bombs

[garmaine → umvi]

For example, the fire bombing of Tokyo killed more in a single day than either Hiroshima or Nagasaki (though radiation sickness would eventually bring the Hiroshima total to slightly larger).

The only real difference with the atomic bombings was it was one bomb from one plane.