Having authorised the use of the bomb any time after August 3 ... know which of three cities will be their target: Hiroshima, Kokura or Nagasaki. Tibbets and bombardier Tom Ferebee have discussed ...

Soon, however, things were set to change as Kokura was the primary target for the bombing planned for August 9, not Nagasaki, where the Fat Man bomb eventually fell. Due to cloud cover over the ...

On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, a B-29 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb reached the skies over Kokura, now part of Kita-Kyushu. But there were too many clouds obscuring the city, making it ...