In a message dated 11/24/01 10:30:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,
starman2100@lycos.com writes: I do agree it would have been the proper thing
to demonstrate the destructive power of the atom bomb by first dropping one
on a relatively uninhabited area.
I think if you check out the reliability of those early bombs they
were not reliable enough to take a chance on a "test drop." I also am not
aware that we had ever actually dropped a bomb before we dropped one in
combat.
Ron h.
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