re: #26 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, yeah, plus that was a year and a half’s worth of U-235 (and had to mix in some 50% stuff at that). Now to be fair, it would probably have only taken another six months to replace it.

The thinking of the time was that 6 months would have cost 2 million US, Japanese, and occupied nation lives.

(A co-worker was on a tiny Yard Minesweeper which had acted as a buoy for lines of landing craft at Okinawa. They were tagged to try their luck again on Operation Olympic. He learned to love the bomb early.)