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Aug 9, 2017 · 2 min read

Some more exact sources:

The US general who had lead the production of atomic bombs has published his book about the project already in 1962 “Now It Can be Told.” If I remember correctly he clearly wrote there that he “worried that Japan would surrender before we had the chance to drop the bomb.” Almost all of the big cities in Japan, including Tokyo, were already seriously destroyed by the U.S. firebombing, with hundreds of thousands dead. US had to for a while plan and instruct their air force to avoid destroying a few Japan cities specially to be able to “see the effects” of the A-bomb. President Truman, according to Stimson’s diary “laughed” as this fact was explained to him.

The A-bomb targets were selected to destroy as much civilians in their houses as possible, and to be dropped in the middle of them, the military installations weren’t important more than an excuse (to these less involved like the president), the goal was for the military to get the as big as possible “radius” of death of civilians, the destruction easily observable from the planes, even the height of the detonation of the bomb was intentionally adjusted with that goal.

Kyoto was to be a second city, but the US Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, prevented it to be bombed some say because he was there on a honeymoon in 1920s. The general “recalled Stimson telling him that Kyoto was a cultural center of Japan, the former capital of the country, "and a great many reasons" more why he didn't want it bombed.”

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