However, if you study the military history, you'll find the reality is that Nagasaki was a major sea port and industrial center (including the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works), making it unquestionably a military target.
And it made the torpedoes used in Pearl Harbor. If it were hit in 1942, it would have undoubtedly been a military target. But hitting a civilian manufacturing town (even if the civilians were manufacturing implements of war) just days before a surrender, and after talks of surrender had started makes Nagasaki more a terrorist act than Dresden, which was thought quite poorly of at the time (by both enemies and allies).
Hiroshima nuking killed about 20,000 troops. Nagasaki nuking killed less than 200 troops. Two orders of magnitude. The Nagasaki bomb wasn't intended to weaken the military's ability to fight, but was intended to weaken the public's will to fight. One is a military goal, the other terrorism.
All this information could also be legally found out by following a person around.
Nope.
Guess you've never heard of computers, searches, and automated agents.
I'm confused. How does a computer help someone follow me around? The cost to follow a person loosely would be $50k minimum, more likely $150k. To follow a person more tightly (follow them if they know and are trying to lose you) is going to cost more than $1M per person followed per year. That's why the police loves it. They can track everyone in the area for one low cost.
women, children, and other civilians.
Women, Children, and Adult Males. Interesting that not a single military person was killed. At least according to your re-statement.
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