A-bomb question

by Muurvin

Why did America drop the atomic bomb specifically on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? If the point was purely to demonstrate the power of this new weapon, couldn't they have just dropped the first bomb on a more remote part of Japan?

bettinafairchild

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