Venik wrote:

Thus, for every Japanese
soldier killed in the Hiroshima bombing there was 97% of "collateral
damage." So, no, it was not the greatest strategic air mission.

The judgement on whether a mission was a strategic success is not based on
collateral damage. In *most* circumstances high collateral damage will usually
translate to a strategic failure....but not in this case.

The Soviet advances were the primary reason for the fact that the Japs
were even considering a surrender.

Not according to interviews conducted with Japanese civilian and military
leaders following WW II. Take a look at the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey.

Same situation as with the Germans trying to surrender
to the Americans and nobody nuked them.

Uhh..the first successful nuclear bomb testing wasn't done until 16 July
1945....two months after Germany was defeated.


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"Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips
everyone on Bear Creek"