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Originally Posted by Raptor1
Tokyo wasn't particularly suitable as a target; much of it was burned to the ground over-night several months before in a firebombing raid that killed more people than either atomic bomb.
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True, but it was their capital city after all and finishing it off by turning it into radioactive glass would have driven the point home in a big way.
IIRC they immediately cried "uncle" when told of the next target after Nagasaki. They had no defense against it whatsoever.
It created an insurmountable fear in those people. I have conversed with a former GI who was stationed in Japan during the post war occupation. He related a story of an incensed crowd of civilians getting a little uppity with them and all he had to do was make a gesture with his hands and mouth of another huge explosion and they settled down mach schnell.