[henkster]

Hiroshima was not on the warning list.

[PeterPrinciple]

Hiroshima was not on the warning list.

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My first thought in reading this was that we were “training” the Japanese to believe us when we said we were going to bomb. A little bit like getting them used to the 3 plane b-29 squadrons.

and we did warn them:

http://www.damninteresting.com/ww2-america-warned-hiroshima-and-nagasaki-citizens/

[PeterPrinciple]

Here is a bit more controversial site regarding the bombing warnings.

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/04/26/a-day-too-late/

There is confusion. Multiple leaflet drops? Some say 40 cities were warned. The article today does not mention 40, but as editor, wouldn’t you shorten to key cities?

[PeterPrinciple]

Here is the Truman library Aug 6 warning?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-leaflets/

[PeterPrinciple]

Interesting info here:

http://www.history.army.mil/books/70-7_23.htm

There was a lot of discussion about warning here by Stinson. But no documentation of what was actually done.

I guess this this was logical operations but we don’t think about it. It was very dependent on weather.

At General Arnold’s insistence, the responsibility for selecting the particular target and fixing the exact date and hour of the attack was assigned to the field commander, General Spaatz. In orders issued on 25 July and approved by Stimson and Marshall, Spaatz was ordered to drop the “first special bomb as soon as weather will permit visual bombing after about 3 August 1945 on one of the targets: Hiroshima, Kokura, Niigata and Nagasaki.” He was instructed also to deliver a copy of this order personally to MacArthur and Nimitz. Weather was the critical factor because the bomb had to be dropped by visual means, and Spaatz delegated to his chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, the job of deciding when the weather was right for this most important mission.

There was a warning.

From the dating of the order to General Spaatz it has been argued that President Truman was certain the warning would be rejected and had fixed the date for the bombing of Hiroshima even before the issuance of the Potsdam Declaration

[PeterPrinciple]

The LeMay Bombing Leaflet

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http://www.smv.org/blog/2011-01-12/lemay-bombing-leaflet

Here it says the leaflet was dropped over Hiroshima. It is not specific and couldn’t be but we did warn them...........