The Japanese war cabinet was deadlocked 3-3 This was after both atomic bombs, the Russians in the war and slaughtering the Japanese army. The Americans had stopped building submarines - because there… (View Post)

The Norden didn’t create accuracy. Hence the shotgun effect of American daylight raids. Nearly every country had produced a similar computing bombsight. The problem was, to get accuracy, you needed t… (View Post)

The third bomb was on the way to Tinian Island when the surrender was announced. General Groves held it up - specifically the shipment of the core (the famous Demon Core) - and awaited Presidential o… (View Post)

Richard Rhodes covers it quite well - there have been some minor updates. The reason for two bombs being dropped was assumed by everyone in the project. There were two routes to the bomb (there are m… (View Post)

That it was going to cause about as much damage as a big fire raid was known. As was the issues of fallout - which is why both Nagasaki and Hiroshima were airbursts. Which reduced the fallout to pret… (View Post)