One day at church, I learned about the 26 Martyrs of Japan, crucified on a hill in Nagasaki in 1597. I said "Hmm, that city is notable for another reason today" and I thought about the frequent Jesuit contact there, the building of a famous basilica in the 1850s, and thinking it was probably not a coincidence or accident that this was the city in the list of secondary targets for the Bockscar mission. Of course, its major military operations and manufacturing surely factored into the choice as well.
