Boris2 comments on Hiroshima Day - Less Wrong

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

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (63)

Sort By: Old

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: Boris2 07 August 2008 05:40:31AM 3 points [-]

Scott, the cost of a 'wasted bomb' in this case was not having another bomb to drop. They only had the two they used.

Or put another way, the cost was the war being prolonged until they did have another bomb produced (order of months).