>>16191298>two cities of civiliansThere were around 40K soldiers stationed in Hiroshima.
Nagasaki had Japan's second largest naval base, and both cities were key players in the war. From a production to logistical pov.
There were also warnings.
Tokyo had been bombed to much more severely previous to the nukes.
The went further than anyone else did to warn people, at least during that war. The japanese didn't give a shit when they bombed all the chinese cities, and raped their women.
