7/21/45: Potsdam conference begins. @HarrySTrumanNPS approves order for the use of the atomic bombs. http://ow.ly/PT13W @WWIIFoundation
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@wellerstein@conelrad6401240@SanhoTree Truman seems not to have known the targets were CITIES. http://www.dannen.com/decision/hst-jl25.html …
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@wellerstein 1 observer plane flew at higher altitude against orders & delayed the rendezvous over Japan. Weather was fine over Kokura then. -
@wellerstein Finally Kokura clouded over. Went to Nagasaki--by then cloudy. Flying on fumes, they used radar to bomb. Lied in action report. -
@SanhoTree I have written on Kokura, which is itself a pretty interesting case: http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/08/22/luck-kokura/ … -
@wellerstein Thorough piece! The Alvarez letter fills in the gaps. It's in RG 200 (Groves correspondence files).Only source I've seen on it. -
@SanhoTree@wellerstein - Alvarez tells much the same story in his book Adventures of a Physicist pp. 144-146. -
@GeneDannen@SanhoTree I've seen his version there, about taking the hole in the clouds "with a grain of salt."
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@wellerstein Nice. Did you ever see Luis Alvarez's post-war reminiscence to Groves about the "real" reason Nagasaki was bombed vs Kokura?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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