Originally Posted by
Bill Greenwood
By the way, the govt had a commitee to find a military target in Japan, they could not come up with a good one, and that is why the Bomb was used on civilian cities. This is clearly discussed in books on the whole atomic bomb story if you care to do some research. I do believe that the moral problem was considered by our govt, there was even the idea of a "demo" Bomb like just off shore or on an island. The problem was we did not have any to waste, and it might not have swayed the Japanese enough and would alert their defenses against B-29s even more though there was little they could do about it. The idea that some little old lady in a small shop was really the military target is silly.