It’s like with Dresden, while forgetting about Warsaw, Rotterdam and Coventry.
Japan had been mostly leveled by the time of the atom bombs
we have been privileged to be able to read the NY Times long and thorough accounts of the strategic air campaign against Japan posted here on Free Republic.
between 300 and 500 B29's destroyed targets every day. Here's a partial photo of Tokyo
It is interesting that you brought Dresden into the conversation. The two atom bombs had a greater 'shock and awe' effect than fire bombing. Just a point in history, Tokyo and several other major cities were fire bombed beginning in March of '45. That continued after the first bomb was dropped. More civilians died in fire bombing in Japan than died due to the two a-bombs. It took the a-bombs to bring the emperor to his senses. The Jap military wanted to continue the war.