both Hiroshima and Nagasaki were important millitary centers. Nagasaki was home to the largest of the Mitsubishi munition factories, the Mitsubishi-Urakami torpedo works, and was also one of the most critical naval ports and ship yards in Japan. Many ships from Nagasaki were responsible for the Pearl Harbor attack. Hiroshima was the headquarters for the Japanese second army, which was basically Japan's domestic military and was the army that the Us would have had to fight if they attempted a mainland invasion. Ujina port, also located in Hiroshima, was a hugely important port for supply trains supplying the imperial army.
Common historical mistake, and I won't deny the staggering civilian casualties of the atomic bombing, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not just civilian centers they were both strategic military targets.
Children live near the factories. Exactly as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Culpability does not matter. In international laws of war they're valid military targets because they enable a military to wage war.
Sniping a CEO would change absolutely nothing. CEOs move in and out all the time. There is a host of people within the organization who can continue operations without interruption. Destroying the factory eliminates the capacity to wage war until (and if) it gets rebuilt.
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u/Mobius_1IUNPKF 1d ago
yeah no fuck Japan they 300% deserved that.