It genuinely looks like a nuclear weapon hit it.

[NNadir]

51. You may as well have used aerial photos of Tokyo, Nagoya, Dresden, Hamburg, Rotterdam...

...Coventry....etc, etc...in the period between 1939-1945.

There are lots of such photos on the internet. I can't link them right now since I'm posting using a phone.

I wonder if without the familiar landmarks, the Hiroshima dome or the marble angel in the tower at Dresden one could pass a quiz looking at a set of pictures of devastated cityscapes one could correctly answer with high accuracy a quiz identifying whether a picture comes from Nagasaki or Nagoya or any of the 67 firebombed Japanese cities destroyed by biofuels mixed with petroleum (which is what napalm is - the "palm" refers to palmitic acid, a biofuel).

I have a number of significant of publications in my personal library on the only nuclear war that ever took place, and I'm sure I would fail such a test.

I did not say that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not flattened, but was simply remarking on nuclear exceptionalism.

My point, probably less than subtle, is that nuclear exceptionalism is in fact destroying the entire planet, a point I make often.