9. It is essentially coincidental that two factories that produced munitions happened to be at the northern and southern fringes of the blast zone. The geography of the city also meant that, unlike Hiroshima, it was still functional (in the large "lower" half) after the bombing.
I'll write a longer Tweet thread, but there were members of the Japanese high command — including the Emperor — who were seriously trying to find a diplomatic end to the war well prior to Hiroshima. There were many stumbling blocks. But they were not all suicidal fanatics.
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I didnt say *all. But why train (& sometimes force) 1000's of young Men to fly planes, ram subs, & boats into our ships? Why convince a population (soldier & civilians w/children!) that it'd be better to die than be taken prisoner like on the cliffs of Saipan as just 1 example?
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