# moonshot925 **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 15, 2012, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonshot925/634747 "2012-09-15T00:27:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 96
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonshot925/634747/96 "2012-09-24T14:43:26Z")
> [@Should nuclear weapons have been used on China during Korean War?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-nuclear-weapons-have-been-used-on-china-during-korean-war/635476/105): > > The firebombing campaign against Japan in 1945 was very effective. Millions of people injured and homeless put a serious drain on their war effort. Thousands of industrial establishments were destroyed which cut production to a level below subsistence. And the bombing also weakened civilian morale. > > The same could have been done to China. If 300 B-29’s dropped 1,000 tons of incendiary bombs on Beijing and burned the city to the ground, then the Chinese would realize that they should pull out of the war. You’re a troll. Not even a particularly good one. Notice how you avoid actually answering the question but use it as an opportunity to make another incendiary (ha!) comment on how many Asians we should have set on fire. The fact that strategic bombing has never been able to force anyone to quit any war is quite well known, as the number of replies to that effect demonstrates. One would assume someone who actually was an officer in a USAF Strategic Missile Wing in the 1980s would be aware of that. Perhaps you should go back to harping about being forced to deport all the Muslims from the country. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/moonshot925/634747)._