Bruce Marshall wrote:
> Very well put. I've always wondered why we didn't give the Japanese the
> 'demo' version first.... as in: fire the bomb off about 5 miles offshore
> where it would have done much less damage but yet show its force.
>Snip
The reason was that they would have to have detonated it close enough to Japan for its
effects
to be apparent and let the Japanese know it was coming. That would have meant some
unpopulated
part of Japan itself. At the time they were not that sure of the technology. They had
only
fired one off, the u239 bomb. While they were reasonably sure the u235 bomb would
work, there
were fears that the thing might not go off and we would be delivering the bomb and its
technology to Japan. So they went for broke. The first one to demonstrate the horror
of the
bomb and the second to prove we had more than one (we had four).
>
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