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Why Is Strategic Bombing Unjustifiable In The Second World War

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The method strategic bombing was unjustifiable in the Second World War because it led to the use of the atomic bomb, which caused destruction to the civilian life. A moment that strategic bombing ensured the usage of the Atomic bomb was in one of the attack in a German city , Dresden. Dresden had shared one key similarity with Hiroshima and Nagasaki; it had a dense population of civilians and was estimated that 100,000 died and majority of it was civilians.The U.S military told Truman that “six months of intense strategic firebombing of 37 Japanese cities had done little to end the war.” In such circumstances, the use of the atomic bomb was the only way of forcing Japan to surrender. By the time of 1945, strategic bombing had a lack of reason
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