I once did the exercise of finding a list of US cities ranked by size. By the time I got down to number 300, it was some small, insignificant place that only had a population of about three thousand.
300 nukes is well and truly enough.
300 nukes is well and truly enough.
Sure, in all out war, you will hit a few major cities, but only a small percentage of the nukes will go there.
Fair point nonetheless.
Read up on Curtis Le May's methods in Germany, Japan, and then later in North Korea. He was a great proponent of fire-bombing large areas in the centre of cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
One fire-bombing raid killed as many people in Tokyo as were killed a few months later in Hiroshima's atom-bombing.