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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Well, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were demonstrations. And I wonder if there mightn't have been a less massively lethal way to demonstrate the thing.
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IIRC, the Japanese government tried to contact the U.S. after the first bomb in order to discuss surrender. They were ignored until after the second bomb was dropped. Of course Tibbets probably wasn't told about this at the time.