Why Nagasaki or Hiroshima?

[Drake Tungsten]

thats why they didnt bomb kyoto.

Or Nara, thank god. One of the few decent acts to come out of WWII.

[David Floyd]

Is THAT the reason why the cold war started? How did it start?

It's not the only reason, but certainly one reason. Had Stalin not been a paranoid ****er (and an expansionist ****er), and had the US not decided to, in many ways, do the same things (on a less brutal scale), everything would have been peachy. Well, not for people living IN the Soviet Union, naturally.

The reason it began is simple, communism and capitalism are incompatable systems. Each needs to destroy the other.

That's not true. True capitalist systems don't really care what type of economy another country has. If everyone in the capitalist country is getting rich, for example, and everyone in the communist country is poor, the capitalists have no reason to go pick a fight, unless the communist country is acting aggressively.

The Cold War was inevitable since the Allies wanted to destroy the USSR, and the USSR's mere existence was a threat to the capitalists, as their own workers could always point to the USSR as an alternative model of organizing society (even after the truth about how bad things in the USSR were came out).

Saying that the Allies wanted to destroy the USSR just isn't true. I can't think of one MAJOR Allied figure, outside of Patton, who even THOUGHT the Allies should destroy the Soviet Union.

In any case, I'm not aware of anyone who left the Soviet Union and pointed to the Soviet Union as a positive way of "organizing society". People from outside the Soviet Union certainly did, but they were essentially ignorant of the reality of the Soviet Union.

[Heresson]

Nagasaki was the center of Japaneese catholicism, and protestant USA wanted to destroy it. Hough.

[Dinner]

That was in the 16th & 17th century. The first Shogun ended up killing most of the Japanese Catholics because their leader was his biggest competetor to the title of Shogun.

[Lefty Scaevola]

The official target in the middle of Hirohsima was the Army Group HQ commanding the defenses of southern Japan. The offical target for the second strick was a military equipment factory complex at Kokura (KitaKyusuhu). Nagasaki contain the secondary target, I do not recall exactly what it was.

[Drake Tungsten]

The first Shogun ended up killing most of the Japanese Catholics because their leader was his biggest competetor to the title of Shogun.

Actually, the Christians were wiped out because Hideyoshi and then the Tokugawa feared that they would act as a fifth column in an invasion of Japan by the Spanish Empire, an idea planted by the blustering pronouncements of a shipwrecked Spanish sailor and reinforced by the Protestant English and Dutch. There's a reason why only the Dutch were the only Westerners allowed to trade with Japan after the Tokugawa closed the country off.