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by valuearb 3234 days ago
Tokyo bombings killed around 200,000 people, a small fraction of the 6 million who lived there. Genghis Khan would have had his soldiers kill most, if not all of the 6 million.
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You mean like Roosevelt had his soliders kill most, if not all citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The objective of the two things is remarkably similar by the way - to demonstrate your might and make the enemy surrender out of fear.
Roosevelt protected Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they were barely touched while he was president.

Truman dropped nuclear bombs on both cities, and the vast majority of their citizens survived the bombings.