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Kundu wrote:

Kyoto would never have been approved for bombing. It was considered too central to Japanese culture. Truman removed it from the list as soon as he saw it.

It was removed from the list because the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, had traveled there and influenced Truman's decision not to target the city. General Leslie Groves had insisted multiple times to hit Kyoto, but Stimson shut him down. Had *i* been Truman, I would've overrode Stimson and hit Kyoto is what I'm saying.