H itler set out to bomb London into submission in 1940. Then we set out on a much larger scale to bomb German cites into submission. They kept right on going until our armies walked into Berlin. When we tried to bomb Hanoi into submission we lost Viet Nam. Even Hiroshima is still a living city.
Cities are oddly indestructible.
We might well ask why. From the beginning, analysts have told generals that their bombs could destroy cities. A 1938 English book, The Air Defence of Britain , announced London's vulnerability. Of course London proved far tougher than that. Parts of it kept functioning without any essential utilities and with half the housing gone.