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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (36475)	8/29/1999 12:32:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I saw the exhibit on Hiroshima at the Air and Space Museum, I would say last year. I know there was a lot of controversy about it, and I didn't keep 100% track of it. But Nicholas, my younger, wanted to see the Star Wars special exhibit, I am pretty sure that's when I saw the Hiroshima exhibit. Or maybe it was just during the summer . . . . At any rate, the exhibit I saw was pretty firm on behalf of the bombing, it made a very good case for it. I was so impressed by the exhibit, that I left a comment, that I was opposed to the bombing until I saw the exhibit, and after seeing it, I was in favor of the bombing. So I don't think it worked out badly.

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (36475)	8/29/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

July 16 to August 6th ... call it eight weeks. Bock's Car delivered the Nagasaki thumper. It weighed 10300 pounds in weapon form compared to 8900 pounds for the Little Boy uranium weapon. Only the B-29 was up to the task, and that barely. fas.org

To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (36475)	8/29/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<Last year Imus interviewed the pilot of the Nagasaki plane. Bach's Car? Something like that. He also flew photo chase over Hiroshima. >> I remember having lunch with a fellow who was in charge of early damage assessment of Hiroshima. The practice was to have several planes fly over a bombed area and each would have a few specific targets to radio back on. The first plane went in and radioed back that the tailor shop, deli and fire station (or their equivalents) were gone. The second plane radioed not to send any more planes as nothing was left. He told me that since they were used to getting 10 to 20% destruction of their targets they were a little confused as to what the hell had happened.