1) I don't want to diminish the horror of the atomic attacks on Hiroshima & Nagasaki, but I do feel we need to clear up a misconception.
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I can say it was the main supply port for the Japanese Navy. I can also say I deplore the indiscriminate targeting of civilians.
And with Nagasaki in particular: the USAAF *truly* did not think it was a very important target in 1945.
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The USAAF bombed Nagasaki five times in the year leading up to, but yes it was mostly down to weather conditions.
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the bomb went off directly over an area of nearly total civilian population (schools, etc.).
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Yeah. I know. Not even disagreeing.
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