Someone suggested that I use the subreddit for my query.
Just curious on this topic as as some very questionable internet sources point to 'Operation Cherry Blossoms At Night' as a main reason that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings went underway. I did my own independent research and failed to find any sources that has information on the relation between 'Operation Cherry blossoms At Night' and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
So to reiterate my question. Was the US government aware of 'Operation Cherry Blossoms At Night' prior to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and if they were aware, did their knowledge of Operation Cherry Blossoms At Night' have any impact on the government's decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Not at all. It's not clear to me that the US had any awareness of any such plans, and in any event, it is very easy to trace why the atomic bombs were dropped, and it has nothing to do with that. It is easily documented. I always find it very strange when people "invent" new reasons for dropping the atomic bombs when the government was pretty clear about the multitude of reasons they had for dropping them. It is a strange variant of the need to invent a "rationale" as if the government was very averse to using them without one. There was essentially no "decision" to drop the bombs — it was assumed they would be used, and the people in the position to drop them saw essentially no reasons not to drop them.