[hinckley buzzard]

The advance dropping of leaflets is a wellknown and undisputed fact. It is also a fact that Hiroshima shared its valley with a military installation supporting tens of thousands of Japanese troops. Their presence may have been part of the reason civilians were hesitant to evacuate the area.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

The advance dropping of leaflets is a wellknown and undisputed fact.

Yes, I understand that. However, the particular leaflet cited was not, as far as I can determine, dropped right before the atomic bomb, but before conventional bombs shortly before that. And the Japanese were becoming immune to the messages falling from the skies. Also, the leaflet did not warn them of any unusual weapon, so even if it had been dropped right before the atomic bomb, its message was basically "here's more of the same old thing."

That said, a warning of a fantastic new bomb would not have impressed a lot of people at that point.