Ian Miles Cheong
@ianmiles · Mar 30, 2024
To top things off, I’d argue that the firebombing of Tokyo — much like the later use of nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki — was wholly unnecessary as Japan was already going to surrender.
Armchair Warlord@ArmchairW· Mar 30, 2024March 9th, 1945. 279 B-29s struck Tokyo with 1600 tons of incendiary bombs with the intent of burning the city down wholesale.
Approximately 100,000 civilians on the ground were killed, more than in either subsequent atomic bomb attack.
Learn some history.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
That is very much incorrect.
Even after the second atomic bomb was dropped, the Japanese government was deadlocked: half wanted Japan to perish in nuclear fire and half wanted to surrender.
It took the emperor himself to break the deadlock and, even then, there was an attempted coup to stop the surrender.
This is well-documented and not disputed.
04:37 AM · March 30, 2024 · 400.6K views
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