[henkster]

Most of the classified briefings were done by Army engineers assigned to the Manhattan District, and were able to convey what the bombs were all about. I wonder if Marshall was able to convey the same level of understanding to Ike and Bradley. All three of them were of a generation where atomic energy was not generally known.

Tibbets and his Manhattan consultants thought LeMay didn't really understand what the bomb was. Most of that generation looked at it as just a really big bomb, and not something totally new and world-changing. Hitler never "got" nuclear physics, referring to it as "Jewish science" so he didn't put any resources into Heisenberg's research.

Kind of like how I don't get Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and have trouble using Google Drive and Google Documents to share and edit as a group.

[colorado tanker]

I still only have the vaguest understanding of the physics of how nuclear weapons work. But I know they do.