'Oppenheimer' finally premieres in Japan to mixed reactions and high emotions - eviltoast
  • T156@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Also that the alternative was burning cities with the people still in them, and they’d seen that, which was have been more horrifying and slow than a nuclear conflagration.

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      9 months ago

      The main way the atomic bombs worked was by setting everything on fire. The radiation was secondary, and much less significant.