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why, it fits with the definition you gave: killing civilians* (140,000) to reach a political goal (end of the WWII)
* they could have sent it on a forest, the blast would have been the same. If you look at the criteria used to choose the target, they chose big cities:
# They are larger than three miles in diameter and are important targets in a large urban area.
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"large urban area" = "city" = civilian