People remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but there was a conventional attack in Tokyo that killed about the same.

The story that the "BOMB" ended the war is a lie. In fact what ended the war with Japan was Russia. When Hitler's war was defeated the Russians...allies with the United States....Russian troops didn't just go home. As our allies they marched back across Russia from Europe and fully intended to attack Japan from the west side. By the time the "bomb" was dropped Japan had just a few cities left standing anyway. The Japanese were thoroughly beaten and as Hirohito said later "Nagasaki and Hiroshima was just two more bombed towns". What the Japanese saw as a threat was the Russians. Not us. The Russians were already entering the real estate we call N. Korea...just a short distance away from Japanese soil when the bombs were dropped. Japan feared Russia far more than they feared us. The U.S. was already making noises in diplomatic channels about what a Japanese surrender would be like...the Emperor staying in place, etc. The Japanese much preferred that kind of surrender over Russian defeat, occupation...and annexation....forever. Japan decided to surrender when it did to end the war so Russia would stop in its tracks and go home. The BOMB didn't do anything that 2,000,000 other bombs hadn't already done to end the war. Japan took the preferred way out of permanent domination and destruction of their society...they surrendered to us rather than let Russia take one step inside of their borders. Truman took credit........but history tells the real story.

People were used to conventional bombs. Nuclear bombs got more attention because you had one bomb that could obliterate a city in seconds. And nuclear weapons also posed an existential threat to all life on earth in a way conventional bombs didn’t. So people took them more seriously.

Dead is dead whether knife, gun, conventional bomb or atomic bomb.

Good post Poncho

Napalm was a much more important weapon than atomic bombs in WW-II, and in Korea and Vietnam.
Napalm is cheap, Napalm is efficient, and it causes unimaginable pain.

Thank you, Professor Dr. Louis Fieser, for inventing something that can burn people's flesh to the bones. I hope you are experiencing Napalm in hell now. 😐

There was also the Doolittle raid, lead by it's Namesake, Colonel James Doolittle, on April 18th, 1942, which involved 16 B-25 Mitchells being launched from the USS Hornet to drop bombs on Tokyo.