I'm aware of these photos and some worse ones too.
The major blast radius was "only" 1 mile not even fully totaling harbor in Nagasaki (I believe it missed and thus hit the city center killing almost 1/4th of its population). Except destroying or damaging almost half of the whole city it also destroyed 3 major weapon plants.
Sure some effects were still in play up to 3-4km from the ground zero.
I'm not saying that it was a nice move from Americans but really, if you think about it it wasn't just an "all bad an evil pointless move". Like I said it was only that shocking because it happened in a moment.
Without the need for pointless long fights with many more people dying PLUS it delivered a huge shock effect making them instantly give up.
It pretty much ended the war and paradoxally reduced the amount of potential casualties imo.
Seriously, up to 150k dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki vs. almost 80million (about 50million civilians) over a few years of war.
It's less than 0.2%.
The major blast radius was "only" 1 mile not even fully totaling harbor in Nagasaki (I believe it missed and thus hit the city center killing almost 1/4th of its population). Except destroying or damaging almost half of the whole city it also destroyed 3 major weapon plants.
Sure some effects were still in play up to 3-4km from the ground zero.
I'm not saying that it was a nice move from Americans but really, if you think about it it wasn't just an "all bad an evil pointless move". Like I said it was only that shocking because it happened in a moment.
Without the need for pointless long fights with many more people dying PLUS it delivered a huge shock effect making them instantly give up.
It pretty much ended the war and paradoxally reduced the amount of potential casualties imo.
Seriously, up to 150k dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki vs. almost 80million (about 50million civilians) over a few years of war.
It's less than 0.2%.