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Originally Posted by ckissick
Look at pictures of Hiroshima and Dresden; they look pretty much the same. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were simply more efficient, but also much more ominous. I think if we were still facing a defiant Nazi regime and German populace, we would have leveled, say, Berlin.
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True. All three bombings remain controversial to this day. Collateral damage, the number of civilian deaths, is the prime issue.
I question whether Churchill would have ordered the bombing of Dresden had he known that almost all of the damage would be to the German citizens, not military targets. Regarding Dresden, Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse 5 is an interesting read; he was a POW there during the attack.