To be sure, Americans, and American Air Force planners in particular, were the only people in the world who believed that they had won a war by bombing, and, particularly in Japan, by bombing civilians. But the nuclear era eventually put that demonic temptation – to deter, defeat, or punish an adversary by an operational capability to annihilate most of its civilian population – within the reach of many nations.
-Daniel Ellsberg
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