Michael_G.R. comments on Hiroshima Day - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 August 2008 11:15PM

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Comment author: Michael_G.R. 07 August 2008 02:47:08AM 4 points [-]

"What if the alternative was for the U.S. to firebomb and blockade Japan [...]"

That was probably another possibility, but certainly not the only alternative to nuking cities.

How about nuking somewhere very visible but not so populated with the message: "We have more where that came from. Surrender or the next one won't be in a daisy field." ?