No, what I'm saying is that it was used as a psychological weapon to force Japan's surrender.
You don't need to prove something like that works on humans. You see an explosion on fake town with dummies, obviously it is gonna kill a bunch of humans just as well.
What would you have done if you were fighting Japan?
There is no right way to win a war, only wrong ones. The best thing you can do is play the numbers game and hope you're right.
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
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)
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