Weather had a huge impact on the Japanese city of Nagasaki in 1945. If not for a last-minute break in cloud cover, the atomic bomb wouldn't have been dropped there.
In fact, Nagasaki wasn't the primary target for the bomb run. The bomb was originally slated to be dropped on Kokura, but cloud cover there prevented it
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