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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
The bomb wasn't just a big ass powerful bomb that could kill a lot of people. It was also a huge psychological weapon.
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that is precisely what I am saying?! The bomb was dropped just to show its effects. Oh yeah, the russians had their own bomb (almost) and they could easily see how destructive it
could be, but why not just show them how destructive it
actually is, by using it on people. and the japanse, well in WWII people didn't care to much about japanese civilian life... in fact, after years of killing on massive scales, people didn't seem to respect life at all..
in other words they dropped the bomb to prove that it worked (on people) at the only time in history they could do it, because popular support was on their side.. they could not do it by the time of thermonuclear devices, because people were beginning to feel bad about about killing people on massive scales. why do you think we never returned to carpet bombing cities like in the war? (because after the fact people began to develop a conscience)