@gitgud Far, far more, on a scale that goes unnoticed and unrecognized, because to admit to it means undermining the narrative of World War II. The war was the founding event for the modern world, and it was a war of atrocities.
It's difficult to talk about the atomic bombings since they were the somewhat inevitable culmination of strategic bombing of civilian centers, a concept that went back all the way to the Great War, that saw its maturation during the bombing of Guernica, and led to the destruction of so many cities. Henry Stimson and Carl Spaatz even pressed for expedited usage of the atomic bombs just so the firebombings would stop all the sooner, and even then casualties in Tokyo in just two firebombings between August 6 and 15 alone caused more casualties than in Nagasaki. Henry Stimson was so horrified after seeing what the firebombings were doing in Germany that he personally intervened to keep Kyoto off the regular and atomic bombing lists because he had seen Kyoto himself a few decades earlier and didn't want it to go up in flames.
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