Was there a third atomic bomb?

[Ms. Toad]

27. 200,000 largely civilians - many of whom were children, killed or injured directly by the bomb

or the immediate effects of the radiation. Countless others were killed indirectly by the bombs as a result of developing radiation induced cancer years later.

That's hardly "without a bloodbath."

Argue that the bombs ended the war earlier than it might otherwise have ended, if you want, but it is insincere to pretend it wasn't a bloodbath - or that the civilians who were the primary victims of the bomb, including children, were brutal monsters, or that a large urban area wasn't chosen as a psychological tactic - for much the same reason that Isis targets civillian targets in Syria - to generate international outrage.

The Target Committee at Los Alamos on May 10–11, 1945, recommended Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama, and the arsenal at Kokura as possible targets. The committee rejected the use of the weapon against a strictly military objective because of the chance of missing a small target not surrounded by a larger urban area. The psychological effects on Japan were of great importance to the committee members. They also agreed that the initial use of the weapon should be sufficiently spectacular for its importance to be internationally recognized.

The committee felt Kyoto, as an intellectual center of Japan, had a population "better able to appreciate the significance of the weapon." Hiroshima was described as "an important army depot and port of embarkation in the middle of an urban industrial area. It is a good radar target and it is such a size that a large part of the city could be extensively damaged. There are adjacent hills which are likely to produce a focusing effect which would considerably increase the blast damage. Due to rivers it is not a good incendiary target."

Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson struck Kyoto from the list because of its cultural significance, over the objections of General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhattan Project. According to Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, Stimson "had known and admired Kyoto ever since his honeymoon there several decades earlier."

On July 25, Nagasaki was put on the target list in place of Kyoto.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Bombing_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki