[Greg F]

IIRC, one of the sad “collateral damage” events of WWII was the Nagasaki bomb wiping out the largest contingent of Christians in any Japanese city.

I had never thought of that before this article. Another element of tragedy in the dropping of the bomb.

[redgolum]

The selection of Nagasaki as the second target for the atom bomb is an odd one. The geography of the place does not lend itself to be a good target (most of the blast was reflected upward by the mountains and not outward like Hiroshima). But it was intentionally spared conventional bombardment for that reason.

There are a lot of theories, but few good answers.