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That an interesting claim. "More Gruesome Than Anything in History". More gruesome than the Holocaust? More gruesome than the firebombings of Dresden or Tokyo? More gruesome than the genocides and ethnic cleansings that marked warfare for millennia? The Aztec temples reached an industrial rate of human sacrifice that outpaced Auschwitz, ripping the beating hearts from their screaming victims while their families looked on in helpless, terrified horror at what was about to happen to them - now that's gruesome. A flash of light that instantly incinerates you before you even know what has happened? That's less gruesome. Being tied between two boats and painted with honey so that you could be eaten alive by insects? More gruesome. Being executed by bullet or electric chair? Less gruesome.
Genghis Khan would be laugh at your claim that the U.S. or the a-bombs were uniquely gruesome. Then he would kill everyone in a hundred miles and have his lieutenants built a pyramid from the skulls. Hell - we dropped leaflets warning the Japanese civilians what was about to happen and warning them to leave the cities. In the annals of military bastardlyness, we're weak sauce.
Since it does not appear to be clear, let me clarify so that you don't obfuscate due to misunderstanding. First of all let's compare the number of weapons, there was one in the case of Hiroshima. Then let's compare the time range over which the weapon was actually welded against it's target, in this case a matter of seconds. Then yes, like I said killing over the third of the population of Hiroshima with one weapon, destroying two thirds of Hiroshima with one weapon, was more gruesome than anything in western recorded history.
In addition to the deaths and physical destruction that were inflicted with just one weapon, there were other effects. The effects of radiation poisoning, caused individuals to get cancer due to the freakish mutation of DNA of living cells. Not only that but the unborn in the womb also suffered freakish effects such as increased head size and other birth defects such as this
When you consider that all of that and more was inflicted with one weapon in a matter of seconds, yes it is indeed the most gruesome thing in recorded western history. Dropping some leaflets does not whitewash the atrocity