re: Tucker Carlson has divided conservative social media with his take on the atomic bomb

Did some more digging on this. I don't know if there were any military bases or targets in Japan completely removed from cities, but Hiroshima was the location of a military base and about 40,000 troops. Kokura (our second target) and Nagasaki (our third target / secondary target) were also home to ordnance factories and industrial factories being repurposed for the wartime effort, but each had far fewer actual troops on the ground.

After Hiroshima, a key higher-up in the Japanese military thought that we could only possibly have two or three more atomic bombs ready to use, which they were prepared to accept, and so they decided not to surrender. When the Emperor of Japan had finally decided to surrender after Nagasaki, there was an attempted coup d'etat from military officials who wanted to keep fighting to the death.

The Japanese conducted unspeakably sick and lethal medical experiments on American POWs, stoned them to death, and who knows what else--may God rest their souls. Actually the Japanese tried to say that eight of the POWs had died during Hiroshima to cover up for the fact that the POWs had actually died from the barbaric medical experimentation.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki Wikipedia

WW2 Museum Website - Kokura and Nagasaki