I go back and forth on this one, especially “why was Hiroshima worse than Tokyo, or Dresden?”
I think it’s the idea of a single weapon, a “push of the button”, erasing so many people at once, reproducing (now) the mechanism that powers the sun, that’s so creepy.
I was 11 when the USSR detonated their “100 megaton bomb” (actually about 58). My family lived in a wood frame split level 25 miles from the Empire State building, the next day the front page of the NY Times had a map with the Empire State Building as ground zero for a Tsar Bomba, and we were all inside the 100% fatality circle they drew on the map.
Most days, I accept the necessity of the atomic bombings. But not every day.
I’ve been to Nagasaki......its LUXH where the boy b HIT! I was SHOCKED!
On those days when you don’t accept the necessity of the atomic bombings, what are your doubts?