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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Agor...hirodamap.html

Ohh look at that. The HQ of the local
military district right in the
zone
of complete destruction.

Which seems to be the only military asset
in the zone.

This map doesn't show the rest of the details.
That Military District
Headquarters held the 11th Infantry Regiment,
the 5th Division
Headquarters, a major artillery detachment,
and a number of other
things, including the Prefectural office and
the City Hall. It was also
the HQ of the invasion defense of that entire
section of the island.

If you're dropping a nuke on Hiroshima in
1945, you couldn't do a whole
lot better for targeting.

Its clear that the people were the real
target.

Yeah, the military people.

Then why did the targetting demand that the
target must be
in a large urban atrea?



Military and Military industries were in such large urban areas.

Not all of them. But why specify that the target had to be in a large
urban area.