Even more true of the fire-bombing of Tokyo.
Tokyo, a much larger city than Tokyo or Nagasaki, was flattened by our fire bombings. The Japanese saw us put hundreds of B-29s over their capital city to destroy it. That is what made the atomic bombings so impressive. One plane, one bomb—and they knew we had 100s of planes, and couldn’t be sure we didn’t have 100s of atomic bombs. We didn’t, but they didn’t know that.