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Why were Hiroshima and Nagasaki chosen as a bombing site?

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Answer: Hiroshima was chosen because it had not been targeted during the US Air Force's conventional bombing raids on Japan, and was therefore regarded as being a suitable place to test the effects of an atomic bomb. It was also an important military base.

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