How stern was the bombing of Japan during World War II ? This single-valued function , which translates the harm to cities in the U.S. that had similar universe sizes in 1940 , gives a ripe sentience of the scale leaf .
The map is thework of Alex Wellerstein , a historiographer at the American Institute of Physics who explain , “ When we sing about the bombing of Japan during the World War II , we usually focalise on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . But before the atomic bomb , the United States had already begun a ruinous crusade of bombard Japanese city with incendiary weapons . Over 40,000 tons of napalm turkey were dribble on Japanese cities before the nuclear bombings take on position . ”
Using information from previous Air Force maps and population figures from the US Census of 1940 , he created the function . you could see the whole thing , which has some interactive feature of speech , over atSlate .
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