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80 years ago today—two years before V-E Day and Nazi Germany’s defeat—the Manhattan Project’s Military Policy Committee eliminated Germany as the target of the still unproven atomic bomb, selecting Japan’s fleet at Truk Lagoon as the best target. https://ieer.org/news/choo...
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“The point of use of the first bomb was discussed and the general view appeared to be that its best point of use would be on a Japanese fleet concentration in the Harbor of Truk. General Styer suggested Tokio [sic] but it was pointed out that the bomb should be used where, if it failed to go off,...
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it would land in water of sufficient depth to prevent easy salvage. The Japanese were selected as they would not be so apt to secure knowledge from it as would the Germans.”

— L. R. Groves, Military Policy Committee Minutes, May 5, 1943, US National Archives
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