The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb www.bbc.com

INTERACTIVE Hiroshima Nagasaki Kyoto Kokura Emperor's palace, Tokyo Niigata Yokohama Hiroshima × First atomic bomb dropped, 6 August 1945.
× Nagasaki × Second atomic bomb dropped, 9 August 1945.
Colonel Paul Tibbets, a 30 year old colonel from Illinois, led the mission to drop the atomic bomb on Japan.
In some senses, it is perverse to claim that Henry Stimson saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb as if it was a positive outcome.
But another atomic bomb was prepared to be dropped on 19 August if Japan had not surrendered four days earlier.