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Re: Ridicule

On Sep 2, 2:33 pm, Mr Soul <pc...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > There you go. Important army depot, and maximum destructive power. War is
> > not about love taps. The rest of the assessment you posted seemed to miss
> > another important point in the choosing of Hiroshima, although it touched
> > on it. Hiroshina had, to that time, been untouched by conventional bombing
> > raids. If an conventional land assault on Japan became necessary, it made
> > sense to hit targets that were as far removed from the direction of the
> > assault as possible. In other words, hit their fallback positions.
>
> Yes - I cited all those reasons but my main point is that Hiroshima
> was not just a military target as Truman portrayed it.  Also, try
> applying the military argument to Nagasaki.

The primary target of the second A-bomb was Kokura Arsenal, a massive
(4100' x 2000') arms-production complex.  The secondary target was the
Mitsubishi Shipyards, a massive warship construction facility near
Nagasaki.  Due to technical and weather difficulties, the bomb ended
up being dropped on Urakami, an industrial zone north of Nagasaki.
There it destroyed both the Mitsubishi Steel Works and the Mitsubishi
Torpedo Works.

Before Japan attacked us, Pearl Harbor had been regarded as immune to
air-dropped torpedoes because the water was so shallow that the
torpedoes would hit the ocean floor and embed themselves in the mud.
This was the only harbor in the world (outside Japan) that had such a
natural defense against air-dropped torpedoes.  In order to attack us,
Japan had to find a way to modify their torpedoes so that they would
defeat these unique defenses.  The aforementioned Mitsubishi Torpedo
Works was the place that did these modifications.

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