• @Linkerbaan
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    02 months ago

    I don’t understand why they threw two bombs. Only would have been plenty if they wanted to prove a point.

    • @PugJesusM
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      172 months ago

      After the first bomb, there was still hesitance in Japan’s high command about surrendering. After the second, a group of officers tried to coup the Japanese government to stop it from surrendering in response to the bombs.

      So much emphasis is put on the fanatical atrocities of the Nazis that the fanatical atrocities of the Japanese are often overlooked in popular history. It wasn’t a matter like fascist Italy, where they were ready to give up as soon as they lost.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      12 months ago

      If you only detonate one they think you only have one. If you detonate two they know you can make more than one, and they don’t know how many you have.