Did the U.S. plan to drop more than two atomic bombs on Japan?
nationalgeographic.com
nationalgeographic.com
>Postwar political considerations did affect the choice of targets for the atomic bombs. Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered that the historically and culturally significant city of Kyoto be stricken from the target list. (Stimson was personally familiar with Kyoto; he and his wife had spent part of their honeymoon there.) Truman agreed, according to Stimson, on the grounds that “the bitterness which would be caused by such a wanton act might make it impossible during the long postwar period to reconcile the Japanese to us in that area rather than to the Russians.”[0]
[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...