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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr.S" data-source="post: 1491175" data-attributes="member: 21999">Nagasaki was chosen as a secondary target because it was one of the largest seaports in Japan, produced weapons and munitions, military shipbuilding, and other military equipment. It had been spared bombing for most of the war due to geography. 90% of the city’s population worked directly for the Japanese war effort.Keep in mind when that plane took off it was heading for Kokura Japan. The only reason they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki was because the weather conditions and the locals in Kokura burning tar to obscure the city.The location where the bomb went off was 2 miles off target at Nagasaki, as they dropped it from quite a high altitude.</blockquote>