And never mind the fact that we had carpet bombed most of the *rest* of the country nearly into oblivion before Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The reason they were chosen? They were among the few cities untouched (as well as Kyoto which was also considered and fortunately discarded as a viable target for the atom bomb).
So much of modern Japan is concrete jungle and the reason for this is that much of the country *had* to be rebuilt after the war, so much of it had been destroyed.
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Date: 2011-03-16 01:30 am (UTC)And never mind the fact that we had carpet bombed most of the *rest* of the country nearly into oblivion before Hiroshima/Nagasaki. The reason they were chosen? They were among the few cities untouched (as well as Kyoto which was also considered and fortunately discarded as a viable target for the atom bomb).
So much of modern Japan is concrete jungle and the reason for this is that much of the country *had* to be rebuilt after the war, so much of it had been destroyed.
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Date: 2011-03-16 08:54 pm (UTC)