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Originally Posted by CDSmith
Question: when was anyone warned prior to any other bombing raid in the entire 5+ years of WWII? Was the warning of the target a common practice? If it was it's news to me. "Hey Germany, we're coming with 350 B-29's to level one of your cities this Tuesday night, just giving you fair warning"
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the distinction is that this is a weapon that can potentially, in one night, destroy 50% or more of a countries population, slit their throat in an instant. The honorable thing to do, as the worlds remaining superpower by a very large margin at that point with the bomb, may be to give them a specific and direct warning of the calamity or put more weight into decisions to demonstrate it on a non-civilian target, but im sure that minte was right, the compassion was not there