Adam Brown

Do not bomb unless you can see the target.

And they got to this other city and they passed over a bunch of times and they couldn't see the target.

It was covered in clouds.

So then they went to their secondary target, Nagasaki, and it was again covered in clouds and they did a whole bunch of passes.

And they'd made various mess-ups the bomber crew had beforehand, including getting lost and

They'd made a number of mistakes, personal flying mistakes on their part that meant that they didn't have enough fuel once they got to Nagasaki to carry the bomb back to base, basically.

And they probably have ended up in the ocean had they tried.

So they were extremely motivated.

At the time, this was the only nuclear weapon that existed in the world.

We'd had two, and then it went down to one, and now there was one, and they were just about to...

drop it in the ocean and lose it.

So according to the official account, after having done all this, on the third and final pass over Nagasaki, there was a miraculous hole in the cloud that suddenly opened up.

And then they dropped it.

And that story is a bit sus.

If for no other reason than that they actually missed, little known fact, they missed Nagasaki.

They were aiming for one point and they hit another point that was on the other side of the hill, such that the original thing they were aiming for was reasonably untouched by comparison for the fact that a nuclear weapon had been dropped.

They missed by much more than you would miss if you were doing visual bombing and they would have been told to do

So this kind of suspicion is that they were doing a little bit of radar bombing against direct orders.

So is it possible that 50% of all of the nuclear weapons ever dropped in combat were in fact dropped against direct orders?

Which is, you know, if true, that's a pretty striking assumption.