Abstract
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima Nagasaki were the culminating events of the Manhattan Project. As described in Chap. 7 training of crews to deliver the bombs began in the fall of 1944. Planning for the eventual use of the bombs in the sense of choosing targets considering wartime postwar strategic implications of such a radical new weapon also began to come under consideration by scientists politicians government advisors military officials at about the same time.
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Reed, B.C. (2014). Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In: The History and Science of the Manhattan Project. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40297-5_8
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