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saturation bombing [‚sach·ə′rā·shən ′bäm·iŋ] (ordnance) Intense area bombing intended to leave no place in a given area free from destructive effects; it may be achieved by dropping many small bombs, or by dropping a medium number of large bombs, or by dropping a single massive bomb. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The obvious example, of course, is the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but, as he points out, the earlier saturation bombings of Hamburg, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Dresden had already killed untold numbers of civilians. Putin is threatening the Chechens, whose cities already have been turned to rubble by Russian saturation bombing, with "a total, cruel, and full-scale war. The official and publicized rationale for the saturation bombing of cities was that, given the intrinsic inaccuracy of necessary nighttime raids, it was the only way of striking military and industrial targets. |
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