As a historical note, it’s not that Japan “weren’t surrendering fast enough” after Hiroshima, it’s that they weren’t going to surrender at all. They knew from the radiation signature that Little Boy was a uranium bomb, and assumed — correctly — that the U.S. could not have refined enough U235 for more than one bomb, and therefore that Hiroshima was a one-off event that the U.S. could not repeat. It was only after Nagasaki that Japan knew that the U.S. could also make plutonium bombs, which could be produced in quantity, that they surrendered.

In retrospect, knowing that the Japanese had their own atomic bomb program and would naturally draw these conclusions, we can say that it would probably have been better to start off with the plutonium bomb.

And no, there is not the slightest chance that Israel will ‘flatten’ Gaza. It’s not what they do. Gilad Sharon’s idiotic statements serve no purpose than to fuel anti-Israel propaganda.