There was a port where ships were built.
Because weather was bad in Kokura city.
They were both targets of a military nature, and had sustained relatively little damage before the bombing. Nagasaki was a secondary target- the city chosen as the second atomic target was weathered in that day, and the aircraft diverted to Nagasaki.
Military importance and shipbuilding ports.
Nagasaki was an ammo and ship supply and base.
The city of Kokura was in bad weather and Nagasaki was next.
The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th, 1945. Nagasaki was actually the secondary target that the bomber moved on to after finding that the primary target, Kokura, had a very effective cloud cover.
As it turned out, the first was dropped on Hiroshima, and the second on Nagasaki. When the B-29's took off from Tinian, they had one target city, and two alternates, for weather considerations. Hiroshima was an initial target city, Nagasaki was a second choice, which they did not know until they got a late weather bulletin in flight.
It was a target which got bombed with an atomic bomb on august 9 1945.
They bombed Nagasaki first. Then, they surrendered.
nagasaki and hiroshimaNagasaki.While its target was Nagasaki an error due largely to significant cloud cover caused it to actually be dropped 1.9 miles away over the Urakami valley.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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