Nuclear Target Map to cheer you up

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[–]chottohen[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

True but I'm not expert on that. More people died in a single night fire bombing Tokyo than did in either city supposedly A-bombed.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The damage from an three look the same. Same cause. Napalm fire bombed.

They already surrendered.

The Bolshevik Russians were already in on the nuke plan hoax, and the plan for a cold war.

[–]CreditKnifeMan 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Look up the images and evaluate for yourself. No real difference. Most structures were wood, and burned.

Trees and telephone poles still standing.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The main difference between a nuke attack and a traditional bombing is that instead of thousands of little explosions you have one big explosion and don't need to have an entire fleet of planes to accomplish the same effect. The damage from both is comparable. In the case of Tokyo the largely wooden construction of the city and the resulting fires basically burned the whole city down and killed the most people.

If you're very close to the center of the nuclear explosion the situation is very different, but get a mile away or so and it starts to be considerably less severe due to the inverse square law. Still have the fires, still have the shock waves, it just all comes from one single explosion rather than a prolonged bombing campaign of small explosions that last weeks. In both situations the city is devastated and the damage is comparable.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

But in Hiroshima or in its vicinity there still lives this famous tree that "survived".

There is a famous photo of it.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is what happens if you build your houses out of paper.

In modern western cities with a lot of concrete and brick the results from nukes would be very different (fire bombs might be much the same as seen in Dresden).