Real Fate of Tokyo in WW2 (It's Worse Than You Think)

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Why wasn’t Tokyo, Japan’s capital city, chosen as a nuclear target, while Hiroshima and Nagasaki were mostly annihilated?

The short answer is — It wasn’t. In fact, Tokyo, along with 68 other Japanese cities,
may have suffered an even worse fate.

A worse fate than being nuked? — You might be asking, perhaps with a bit of disbelief. Well, it depends on how you look at it. Essentially, it depends on how one chooses to objectively measure the horrors of war. If such a thing is even possible.

The question we’d have to ask would be: Is one bomb killing 100,000 people in a matter of seconds worse than thousands of bombs killing perhaps even more people over a matter of months? Is dying months after the fact from radiation poisoning worse than dying days or weeks later from extensive burn injuries, exposure, or starvation?

The weight of a tragedy often gets determined by how well it is remembered. But that certainly isn’t a fool-proof measurement either.

You see, when the war ended, the world was in a big hurry to either celebrate or demonize America’s use of the atomic bomb. And in doing so we looked right past what was actually the single deadliest bombing campaign in the history of aerial warfare. Why wasn’t Tokyo nuked, you ask — well, because by the summer of 1945, Tokyo practically didn't exist.