Word: tinian
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...about May of 1945, we relocated to Tinian. And around August 1st, we got a message from Washington, that the use of bomb had been released by the President. But it should not be dropped before the 2nd of August. The real limitation from then on was the weather in Japan. The first permissible weather was on the 6th of August. Our mission [Nagasaki] would be on the 9th. It had pretty much been...
...Guam Tinian Iwo Jima Hiroshima Tokyo Nagasaki: bombed...
...They remembered staying up through the night and eating breakfast long before dawn. Theodore (Dutch) Van Kirk had pineapple fritters. "I love the damn things," Van Kirk, 84, says today from his home in Stone Mountain, Ga. "I'll never forget the pineapple damn fritters." The Enola Gay left Tinian, in the Marianas chain, at 2:45 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive over Hiroshima, a city at the south end of the Japanese island of Honshu, at 8:15 a.m.; the crew was 15 seconds later than planned. The plane then dropped a single bomb, weighing five tons. Says...
...proliferation has been with us from the start. On Aug. 5, 1945, the day before Hiroshima, the possibility of nuclear weapons was hardly a secret. (At least two crew members of the Enola Gay guessed the nature of their cargo before Tibbets told them on the flight from Tinian.) The key theoretical and laboratory work on nuclear fission had been done and published by 1939, and since the community of physicists included Americans, Britons, Germans, French, Italians, Swedes, Russians, Hungarians and Japanese, no one country ever had a monopoly of nuclear know...
...room and exploration of the options was inhibited. When Japan was issued a warning from Potsdam a month later, no explicit mention was made of either the Bomb or the Emperor. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the Japanese government would treat the warning with "silent contempt." On the island of Tinian that day, a 300-lb. lead cylinder with a core of enriched uranium was being transferred to the headquarters of Colonel Paul Tibbets' 509th Composite Group...