The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki delivered devastating destruction from single weapons. The firebombing of Dresden and Tokyo provides a comparison with destruction inflicted by conventional bombing. The comparison cautions against judging an attack's destructiveness solely by whether it used an atomic weapon.
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Comparing atomic bombing with conventional firebombing
Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be considered alongside the destruction inflicted by conventional firebombing at Dresden and Tokyo.