The Moral Importance of Area Bombing

The decision to switch from pinpoint to area bombing was in an important sense a more morally important turning point than the decision to drop atomic bombs. You have to have a bombsite that is accurate enough to allow a plane flying overhead to find the target and close in on the target and drop the bombs at just the right time. The computers of the day were analog computers made up of gears and switches, but they were highly protected and top secret.