Kasz216 on 31 May 2013
| bobgamez said: why exactly did they need to hit defenseless citizens? why couldnt they just nail army bases, it would of had the same effect. Thats one of the things i hated about the bombing decision of the US then |
1) Back then Total War was the definition of the day. See for example the Nazi bombings of London. Back then they figured bombing cities would cause a countries people to demand surrender quicker.
2) Army bases were generally based inside or near cities. The cities they attacked actually did have military facilties that were the targets. Hiroshima was home to a number of military camps and had a supply base.
Nagasaki was a huge industrial city that produced a lot of war matierals. 90% of the cities workers built things for the war.
They were honestly probably the best military targets available, because all the other ones had already been bombed into dust.
