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The bombs were needed there was no doubt about it IMO -
But i would check up on saying that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were exactly military targets. Thats not entirely true - the cities were left 'off target' to U.S. bombers for a long time during the war for the sole purpose of proving what the bombs could do to intact cities. Sure there is no doubt that they produced stuff for their war effort - but they weren't exactly considerable or else they would've been hit much earlier by conventional bombers.
Oh and interesting point - Hiroshima and Nagasaki only ended up the targets because Kobe ahd bad weather one of the days and so those were the two that ended up getting hit.
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