At the time, US President was a Mason, but I know NOT if there is a connection with the fact that both Japanese civilian targets where predominately Catholic!
I’d be curious to know the name of the man at ground zero, and reading his story. I would have thought that the heat and pressure waves would have done for him, and that in his case radiation would have been redundant.
Wikipedia (FWIW):
On May 10–11, 1945, the Target Committee at Los Alamos, led by J. Robert Oppenheimer, recommended Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and the arsenal at Kokura as possible targets. The target selection was subject to the following criteria:
* The target was larger than three miles in diameter and was an important target in a large urban area.
* The blast would create effective damage.
* The target was unlikely to be attacked by August 1945. “Any small and strictly military objective should be located in a much larger area subject to blast damage in order to avoid undue risks of the weapon being lost due to bad placing of the bomb.”
I don’t see the demographics of the cities listed for consideration.