| The Ghost of RubangB said: It wasn't really well planned. They picked Hiroshima that morning. Due to the weather. They picked a date and they didn't pick a city. Then when that date rolled around, they went "Hey this city doesn't have a cloud in the sky, we can get good before and after pictures from the airplane!" |
They needed a cloudless city so they could have visual confirmation of the city to drop a friggin' a-bomb, not because they wanted pretty pictures.
It was common practice in WWII to require visual confirmation of the target before dropping bombs.
Oh, and Hiroshima was always the primary target. They had two "back up" cities planned for the reason I just listed. Suggesting that the military sent planes armed with a nuclear weapon over Japan blindly hoping to find something to drop it on is fucking ludicrous.
Unless you think it's coincidence that Americans dropped the bomb on the city that housed the command center for the Army's defense of southern Japan, which is where the Americans would invade if it came to that point.
I mean, really.
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