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To: SkyDancer

Keep in mind also that the plan, should the Japanese still not surrender after Nagasaki, was to scrap the existing target list and drop the third bomb (components were enroute to Tinian) somewhere in the Tokyo area, within clear sight of the Imperial Palace. But not close enough to do damage.


71 posted on 06/08/2015 6:13:31 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: tanknetter

Didn’t read about that. Secretary Simpson was adamant about not dropping the bomb on historic sites.


72 posted on 06/08/2015 6:25:56 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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