I had "?" at the end of those points because I'm posing questions, as we simply don't know, yet we are sold that false dichotomy. We don't even know that it has to be 2 cities; it could have been two isolated military bases, or 1 on Mount Fuji where everyone could see, then one on some military base.
The point is the first and only 2 bombs were on cities, we don't know what effect dropping them anywhere else would have had.
I had "?" at the end of those points because I'm posing questions, as we simply don't know, yet we are sold that false dichotomy. We don't even know that it has to be 2 cities; it could have been two isolated military bases, or 1 on Mount Fuji where everyone could see, then one on some military base.
The point is the first and only 2 bombs were on cities, we don't know what effect dropping them anywhere else would have had.
I think without loss of life, the psychological damage to break them wouldnt have been enough