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		rstupek 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites We killed almost as many civilians when we firebombed Tokyo. Is the use of the atomic bomb somehow different in your mind?

yencabulator 5 months ago [–]

I can think of three things off the top of my head, the scale enabled by them, the timeline of the deaths, and the residual effects.

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