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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by nradov on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:35AM (#30361300)
Perhaps, but at the time the supply of nuclear weapons was very small. US leaders weren't sure how many they would need to use in order to compel an unconditional surrender so they couldn't afford to waste one on a demonstration and then potentially be caught short.
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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by boomboomsubban on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @10:46AM (#30361480)
We already "wasted" one on a demonstration, and what was the great risk of being caught short? Japan potentially faces another round of conventional bombing?
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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @01:07PM (#30363397)
The trinity test was a proof of concept. It was not anything close to a production ready bomb.
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Re:History's deadliest air raid happened in Tokyo during Wor... by AnimalMuppet on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @03:56PM (#30365569)
From Wikipedia:

> The Trinity Gadget was officially a Y-1561 device, as was the Fat Man used a few weeks later in the bombing of Nagasaki. The two were very similar, with only minor differences, the most obvious being the absence of fuzing and the external ballistic casing. The bombs were still under development, and small changes continued to be made to the Fat Man design.

So, not identical. But "not anything close" seems wrong.

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