Originally Posted by ADL Colin

So if civilian casualties at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were less than 1% of the civilian casualties of WW II and if the bombing of cities started 5 years earlier including the mass fire-bombing of cities - why would a warning even be necessary? Should the British have dialed up the Germans and told them when and where to expect every air attack so they can evacuate even though it would have increased the air defenses against them and so decreased the probability of success? Pretty dangerous job already. Over 100,000 Allied bomber crewmen were killed over Europe alone.