Stimson against the advice of General Groves, the Manhattan Project's military leader). The Target Committee at Los Alamos selected Hiroshima as one of five possible targets for the first mission, along with Yokohama, Kokura, Niigata, and the city of temples, Kyoto (which was subsequently eliminated at the insistence of Secretary of War Henry L. From the beginning the mission that resulted in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima overshadowed Nagasaki.