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Old 08-03-2009, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by loopdreams View Post
I don't think historians are quite so unanimous about that. Many argue that Japan was already at the point of surrender and in any case did the US really have to choose such highly populated civilian areas to demonstrate the overwhelming might of their new weapon?
no , we had to bomb them twice with nuclear weapons before they surrendered

And we bombed military targets , it just so happened that they were in cities