[don-o]

The choices for targets always confused me, and I do not agree with them, but to be honest I can't think of a way that would have got Japan to surrender cheaply.

Was there any talk of doing a demonstration bombing? Like blowing the top off that sacred mountain?

[redgolum]

There was some talk of that, but the issue for me is that Hiroshima was not a good strategic target. If the goal was to take out the high command and military, there were a lot better targets. Instead the bomb was dropped on one of the only Christian cities in Japan.