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By: JH

Hi Ward, You are mistaken though when it comes to the range of the bombers and the targets: “After Nagasaki was bombed, Japan had nine large cities (populations over 100,000) that had not been bombed....

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By: Terrence O'Neill

Interesting comments about the bombing of Japan in 1945, some seem at odds with the reports of the Air Force and particularly with those of Gen. Curtis LeMay who the General Arnold put in charge of...

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By: Alex Wellerstein

There is really zero evidence of any substance that the US captured enriched uranium from the U-234. Germany was simply not in any position to enrich that much material; that is considerably more than...

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By: What If Truman Hadn't Ordered the H-bomb Crash Program? » Restricted...

[...] ultimate “What If?“ of the atomic bomb is, “what if they didn’t drop the bomb?” The ultimate [...]

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By: Nuclear This, That, and "Them"» Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog

[...] commentator, Princeton’s Michael Gordin (whose work I have previously praised), poked at our papers in variously interesting ways. One thing he did ask was where the [...]

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By: Atomic Editorial Cartoons (August 1945) | Restricted Data

[...] that the war would be ending soon. This was still a few days before the Japanese capitulation — which was not entirely expected. One wonders how the view of the bomb would have changed if Japan...

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By: "We all aged ten years until the plane cleared the island."| Restricted Data

[...] the worst anti-climax being told not to prepare another atomic bomb for use! What I like about Ramsey’s letter is it hammers home, again, how primitive the first atomic [...]

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By: The Decision to Use the Bomb: A Consensus View? | Restricted Data

[...] know. The US was still planning to invade in November 1945. They were planning to drop as many atomic bombs as necessary. There is no contemporary evidence that suggests Truman was ever told that...

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By: The Third Core's Revenge | Restricted Data

[…] third, however, has been largely overlooked. The third core was the one that was destined to be the Third Shot dropped on Japan, had there been a Third Shot. Instead, it has a different story — but...

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By: Dwight R. Rider

I recently completed a paper that I think might add a bit to the discussion as it discusses some events that occurred at the Japanese Imperial Headquarters in the final days of the war that have never...

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