History Day: September 4, 1945 in the United States signed a #memorandum 329 on the choice of 20 targets in the Soviet Union for the atomic bombing. Targets for #bombing were selected based on: 1) production capacity, especially the production of aircraft and other weapons; 2) the availability of public and administrative institutions; 3) the availability of scientific and technical institutions. The list of Soviet cities that were to share the fate of #Hiroshima were #Moscow, #Gorky, #Kuibyshev, #Sverdlovsk, #Novosibirsk, #Omsk, #Saratov, #Kazan, #Leningrad, #Baku, #Tashkent, #Chelyabinsk, #Nizhny #Tagil, #Magnitogorsk, #Perm, #Tbilisi, #Novokuznetsk, #Grozny, #Irkutsk and #Yekaterinburg - while they lived 13 million people. Planned the destruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. #war #USA #targets #TransSiberianRailway #USSR