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Originally posted by Night Stalker:
WWII still went on after the Firestorms of Dresden (granted not much longer) and that was only a conventional attack. BTW, Dresden was the single most destructive sortie of WWII with over 150K civilian casualties, more than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
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The firebombing of Tokyo achieved similar results; Japan was ready to surrender after the first nuke - the second was just pure nastiness. The US dropped the second so they could tell the Russians they had no more in inventory.
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