The atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed less Japanese civilians than the fire-bombing of Tokyo a few weeks earlier.

Question:- The atomic bombing of Hiroshima killed less Japanese civilians than the fire-bombing of Tokyo a few weeks earlier. Why was there no outcry from the Tokyo bombing?

Answer

Their hatred of incineration of Tokyo a few weeks after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima was drowned in a cascade of indifference to the destruction of civilians as a result of strategic bombardment during World War II. On 9 – 10 March 1945, the battle of Tokyo killed approximately one hundred thousand civilians, but as it was judged as a conventional bombing raid, no matter how big the scale. Nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki though not the first had brought a new instrument to bring total destruction to any city in an instant . Nuclear weapons with their unpredictable chain reaction and their vast radioactive capabilities caused a world-wide awareness and resentment beyond that induced by the conventional fire bombings.