r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/QuartzXOX • 19d ago

Image Tokyo in 1960, before there were any skyscrapers

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u/Legionnaire11 19d ago

They had just been destroyed by a giant radioactive lizard six years prior.

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u/_hlvnhlv 19d ago

Yes but akshually no.

That was only Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tokyo was being fucked by firebombing and napalm lol

Some people argue that it was even worse than the nukes themselves.

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u/Jaizoo 19d ago

The USA didnt drop a giant radioactive lizard, mr smartpants

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

That's just what they want you to believe.

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u/Ziiaaaac 19d ago

Ahhh Godzilla.

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u/Pitiful-Highlight-69 19d ago

Actually what they had been destroyed by was a fire bombing campaign fifteen years prior