Vito, it wasn't the comparative destruction. It was its function as the product of two weapons delivered only two times. The Japanese could not know how many more such weapons the Americans had to deliver to Japanese cities.

The Soviet forces were on the Asian mainland; the Atomic bombs were falling from above.


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