On Nov 3, 10:29 am, " JimH" ask wrote:
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On Nov 2, 1:59 pm, Chuck Gould wrote:
On Nov 1, 7:38?pm, Tim wrote:
On Nov 1, 3:59 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing
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"...Tibbets, then a 30-year-old colonel.."

WOAH! I think he has the right idea over secrecy in his burial,
though.

Knowing what I know now, I don't know if I could have done his job
or
not. Even though it was probablyt he right thing to do, I don't
think
it would be a prideful act.

But I wasn't there either.

mixed emotions

We had reduced Japanese naval power to the point where an effective
blockade of the island nation would probably have inspired its
surrender within a matter of weeks...likely without an invasion.

Perhaps, but that wasn't guaranteed. And it wasn't a reason to delay
the A-bombs.

Truman felt it was neccessary to demonstrate the effectiveness of both
the uranium bomb (Hiroshima) and the plutonium bomb (Nagasaki) to
convince the Russians that we had the will and capability to react to
any threat "with extreme prejudice".

Perhaps to some extent, but Truman's main concern was convincing Japan
to surrender.

There was no desire to demonstrate different types of bombs. The only
reason two bombs were used is because Japan surrendered between the
second and third bombs. Had Japan surrendered between the third and
fourth bombs, they'd have been nuked three times.

There was no 3rd bomb ready for use. It was months away from
development.

That is incorrect. Japan missed the third A-bomb by about a week.

There were implosion assemblies already at Tinian. All they needed
was a plutonium core to put in them.

On August 11, that core was just leaving Los Alamos, to be flown to
the Pacific for a bombing around August 17-18. However, Japan had
begun to talk about surrendering the day before, and Truman had
responded by ordering a temporary halt to A-bombing to give them a
little breathing room. Groves took that a step further and ordered a
halt to shipping the core. The core only made it as far as the Los
Alamos parking lot before it was recalled.

On August 14, Truman ordered that the core be shipped and that it be
used on Tokyo. However, a few hours later Japan surrendered and the
war was over. Because of the three day delay in shipping the core,
the bombing would have been around August 20-21.

After the third bomb, there would have been a delay of some months,
but not because we lacked A-bombs. The delay would have been because
we would have begun saving them up to clear the beaches just before we
invaded.

Expected production rates would have been another three in September,
another four in October, another five in November, another seven (or
more) in December, and about ten a month from then on.

Thanks. I was just repeating what was said in the Burns "The War" PBS
documentary. I guess they were wrong.

Yes. I cringed at that part. They made three huge errors in a couple
quick lines.

They also said the Nazis were racing to build their own A-bomb. We
did fear that during the war, and that fear is what led us to rush our
own A-bomb program. But in reality the Nazis had erroneously
concluded that an A-bomb was impossible, so they weren't pursuing it.

And worst of all they had absurdly high figures for the post-1945
radiation deaths -- far higher than what actually happened.