Hiroshima

[tongodeon]

Just out of college, my uncle worked at Livermore making detonators for their atomic bomb project. I admired my uncle, which is one reason why my first job out of college was also at the Livermore lab. I wasn't working on physical weapons, but I was proud to work at the Lab

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[tongodeon]

I dunno. We sent the Potsdam Declaration on July 26 and was publicly rejected by Kantaro Suzuki even though behind closed doors he had been advocating to accept it. The word that he used in his press conference was mokusatsu which might have meant "no comment" but it could have also meant a contemptuous rejection. The ambiguity of the word has since been reinterpreted and criticized. So, um, yeah. It's complicated.