>>15837424>Implying precision bombing existed in WW2.It did. By 1945 in Europe, bomber command was fully capable of destroying single buildings and facilities in German cities, and this was shown time and time again to be more effective than area bombing. The Americans repeatedly pushed for the main role of bomber command to be switched to more precision bombing, rather than randomly picking a city and then wrecking it from end to end. However at the time city busting was considered by certain people (Churchill, Bomber Harris) to be more desirable because of the effect on the moral of the civilian population, and just out of revenge for the German attacks, which lacked the co-ordination and accuracy of bomber command and so had to resort to area bombing.
It would have been completely possible for the USAF to bomb the facilities in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with a reasonable degree of accuracy, even from high altitude.
And even if there was a lot of civilian deaths from that conventional bombing, it's still a lot better than killing two hundred thousand civilians just to stop a couple of factories.
