Sentences with phrase «dropped on a civilian population»

A late - night conversation as Jiro waits for a date with his bride - to - be ends with a mysterious stranger telling him that Japan will burn along with technological ally Germany — and we know that it does burn, not just in the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in the devastation of Allied incendiary bombs dropped on a civilian population that had, for centuries, built their homes from paper and wood.

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In contrast to the Franck report, the decision to drop the bomb on civilian populations was governed mainly by immediate military considerations.
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