In article ,
"weary" wrote:

In Hiroshima the aiming point was in a largely residential area and
the targetting selection required that the military target be in a
large urban area.

You know, you keep saying this, and while true in one respect (there
were a lot of homes in the area), it was a great aim point for hitting
the major military targets in Hiroshima, along with the local City Hall
and Prefectural offices.

There were a lot of homes in the area, but there were a lot of homes
*everywhere* in Japan near anything worth hitting. They had a habit
(and still do) of putting homes on any stretch of urban land that would
hold a building and wasn't urgently needed for anything else.

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