Zarc
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when you're writing your memory on the Pacific war on french press and you read at August 8th 1945 the atomic bomb on Hiroshima... i can't imagine world reaction on that moment , i don't know it's like if tomorrow Kim Jong Un decide to press the button...
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Considering 60 million people had died at that point in the war, 50k people died in the London bombings, 100k died in the Tokyo Firebombing raids, 85k dying due to the dropping of Atomic weapons probably didn't feel like very much. Let me repeat this, more people died in the London Blitz than in Hiroshima. And the Tokyo bombings killed more than both of those combined.
Naturally, these are all tragedies, but after 6 years of much higher casualties being in the headlines daily, such comparatively small numbers probably didn't feel like much. In fact, most people didn't even know about the after effects of radiation at this point. It was a weapon like any other to the populace.
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