[nequo]

What do you mean by M&M? Did the overnight raids in Tokyo also kill 80,000 people? I don’t know the numbers for Tokyo but that would sound surprising.

[ustolemyname]

Yes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo_(10_March_1...

[nequo]

Thanks for sharing that.

[defrost]

Mortality and Morbidity Statistics.

Those directly killed and injured and those indirectly killed and injured.

Water and food supplies were disrupted and polluted, infections followed, etc.

As someone else linked and as I stated the scale of each event was very similar.

See also Kurt Vonnegut's accounts of the Dresden firebombing he lived through as a US PoW in Europe some months earlier.

[weinzierl]

Dresdens destruction was so severe that now, 78 years later, reconstruction efforts are still ongoing - despite huge efforts and spending of enormous financial resources over the past decades.

[varjag]

Plenty places in Europe were hit harder than Dresden, but lacked a world renowned author to document first hand account.

[Spooky23]

The nuclear bomb was shocking, and distracted from the horror of conventional bombing. Dumping white phosphorus and napalm on cities is no less barbaric than nuclear explosions.

LeMay and his ilk were monsters, eager to rain destruction down with any tool available.