[VOA]

...the Polish pope fetched up in Japan, where he met the wife of the
owner of a local cable-television station who happened to be a Catholic.
Japan has a tiny but fierce Catholic population left over from the
days of St Francis Xavier, the apostle of the Indies.

(Fellow Freepers, hold your fire. This is NOT a criticism of
the dropping of the atomic bombs to end WWII)
For the younguns in the crowd, the lady is probably part of the Catholic
population that was substantially reduced when the second A-bomb was dropped on
Nagasaki.
The bomb was aimed at an easily identified landmark of Nagasaki...it's cathedral.
In a flash of light, the Christian cause in Japan was dealt a
more severe blow than centuries of oppression by Japanese rulers.

I'm only mentioning this because it blows away a lot of the zenophobia
arguments about the dropping of the bombs.
The USA passed up targets that had Japanese cultural importance, but
took out a city with a large part of the Christian population.
So much for the zenophobia. We were dropping the bomb to end the war...
not to just do a racist killing of a foreign population.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The bomb was aimed at an easily identified landmark of Nagasaki...it's cathedral.

Anyone who knows the details of the Nagasaki mission, original target was Kokura, knows that that claim is bulls***.

[narses]

We let Satan target for us. We committed a terrible crime, killing innocent men, women and children. It was a Cathedral, not a military target. Satanic.

[grey_whiskers]

The bomb was aimed at an easily identified landmark of Nagasaki...it's cathedral.

In a flash of light, the Christian cause in Japan was dealt a more severe blow than centuries of oppression by Japanese rulers.

Anti-Democrat, pro-nuke, tongue-in-cheek Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!

Yep. Is it necessarily a coincidence that a Democrat was commander-in-chief at the time?

[Tijeras_Slim]

The Nagasaki bomb was dropped by radar due to cloud cover.