6. With the alternative being to drop the bomb without really seeing the target, or drop it in the ocean (because they didn't have enough fuel to fly it back), they opted to countermand their main orders about visual bombing and drop it based on radar.
Lastly: I'm not sure who you're addressing with the "no apologies," but that's not my aim here. My aim is for people to understand what it was, beyond the myths. The Nagasaki run was a mishap-filled slaughter of non-combatants, and not part of any coordinate strategy.
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This is true whether you think it was ultimately justified or not, which is a separate question entirely, and informed people can come to different conclusions on that. But you've got to get the facts straight first, or else you're just repeating someone's propaganda.
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A "mishap-filled slaughter of non-combatants"? That's all Japan did through China and other countries and their own citizens.
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