Posted on 08/03/2005 10:49:43 PM PDT by manny613
we only had the 2 bombs at the time, probably would have taken months to throw another couple together
Apparently there was a third device at Tinian, but the Pu core was kept behind at Los Alamos.
what do you think they were using the Chinese in Manchuria as guinea pigs for? The plan was to infect crickets (!) put them in clay containers that would burst at a predestined altitude to ensure broad coverage of SF. The delivery vehicle was the problem, their special long range bombers weren't ready... also they were designing and building proto-type jet fighter.. but without useable jet engines being available... delta winged with canards in front.... they even tried to build special subs that would launch an aircraft to drop the toxic cargo.
The weapons that never really made it. Like the US jet fighter that was being built by the end of the war- according to a show I saw on the old WINGS channel... which were far too slow...
In the same catagory as the flying wing bombers found in Germany...
does anyone remember that show about the secret weapons of WW2 that were never used??
Hitler refused to use chemical weapons in WWII, in part at least because he had been blinded by chemical weapons in the last offensive of the Great War.
It was a show more along the lines of aircraft being developed and the bio-weapons of Japan... tested on Manchurians... probably where the commies came from.. /kidding
Actually we had the plutonium for a third at Los Alamos.
When Truman originally gave the OK to use Little Boy and Fat Man he didn't realize that the form of his order allowed both bombs to be dropped as the field commanders thought prudent. He thought he had only authorized one bomb...with the ability to OK the second. Nagasaki was a surprise to him.
Because of this, he reissued orders on August 10th, saying that no more atom bombs be dropped without his specific OK, and, suufiecently horrified at the women and children already killed in Horishima and Nagasaki, it was doubtful he would order a third bomb dropped on another civilian target. Therefore the plutonium core for the third bomb stayed at Los Alamos and never made it to Tinian.
In the first weeks of August, Marshall had gathered input from his field commanders regarding the efficacy of using atomic bombs as tactical weapons -- specifically for the Invasion of Japan. In fact, Admiral Richard Connolly specifically asked for six atomic weapons to bookend each of the three landing sites for Operation Majestic (formerly Olympic)-- the invasion of Kyushu. Given intelligence reports that the Japanese had 14 instead of 9 divisions on Kyushu by early August, the chances of tactical use of the atomic bomb would have appeared much more inviting.
On August 13th, Marshall was assured that there would be 7 additional plutonium bombs ready by November 1st -- the tentative date for the Kyushu invasion.
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