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You're talking about two bombs on relatively unimportant targets, specifically because they wanted relatively untouched cities to erase as a demonstration. That won't kill as many people as years-long bombing campaigns on more populous cities. They were staged demonstrations, not attempts to kill massive amounts of people.

If Japan didn't surrender after the first two atom bombs, the next half dozen would have undoubtedly caused much, much more damage.




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