[Homer_J_Simpson]

Billboard Top 10 for the Week of August 25, 1945

#1 - “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” - Johnny Mercer, with the Pied Pipers
#2 - “Till the End of Time” - Perry Como
#3 - “Chopin’s Polonaise” - Carmen Cavallaro
#4 - “Gotta Be This Or That” - Benny Goodman
#5 – “If I Loved You” – Perry Como
#6 – “Tampico” – Stan Kenton, with June Christy
#7 – “Sentimental Journey” – Les Brown, with Doris Day
#8 – “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” – Bing Crosby
#9 – “On the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe” – Tommy Dorsey, with the Sentimentalists
#10 – “I’m Gonna Love That Gal” – Perry Como

[Homer_J_Simpson]

MacArthur Shifts (Kluckhohn) – 2
Burma Surrender is Begun by Enemy – 3
Rival Forces Race for Territory in China (map) – 3
Chungking and Reds Claim New Gains in Wide Areas – 4
Russians Advance Closer to Peiping – 4
China Won’t Occupy Hong Kong to Avert Dispute, Chiang Says – 5
Army, Navy at Odds (Shalett) – 5-6
De Gaulle Urges U.S., French Amity (Callender) – 6-7
De Gaulle Interviewed by the American Press (photo) – 6
Eisenhower Calls Parley on Control (Middleton) – 7-8
Roosevelt Pledge to Arabs Alleged – 8
Council in Austria Delayed by British (MacCormac) – 8
Kerama Island Foe Quits Boastfully (Jones) – 8
Japanese Stress Hiroshima ‘Horror’ – 9
World News Summarized – 9
Jews Appeal to Bidault in the Capital for Protection of Right to Jobs in France – 10
A Job that Pleases the Chief (photo) – 11
The Atomic Insignia (photo) – 11
Communiques – 12
American Battleship Damaged by Japanese during Peace Talk (photo) – 12

[PeterPrinciple]

Use of Atomic Bombs against Warships proposed as a Test of Fleets Value

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I guess I never thought about why they were tested but below is the concern. We didn’t know much did we. But the metal did become brittle at the test and bombings so it was logical.

.............There has been speculation concerning whether the atomic bomb, “if dropped in the midst of a fleet at anchor, might cause the bottoms of steel ships to disintegrate and thus sink the entire fleet.....................would like to see such a test conducted against some of our old battleships, for, if the atomic bomb works this way, they want to know it.