Adam Brown

fact about nuclear war, since people are somewhat worried with nuclear war that someone will launch nuclear weapons without being ordered to do so.

And it does kind of look like 50% of all the nuclear weapons ever dropped in combat were dropped against direct orders.

When they got back,

Curtis LeMay was going to court-martial them and was, like, super mad, but then the war ended and they didn't want to do it for PR reasons.

So I just ordered and found every account ever written by every person.

Super fascinating to do that because all these different people had completely non-overlapping lives.

You know, some of them were...

you know, were on the Manhattan Project and were there as observers and waited later to win Nobel Prizes for physics.

And some of them were just people who were just, you know, there for one moment.

There was... Yeah, in every... There was typically a...

a physicist, a representative of the Manhattan Project on the plane, just in case.

So Louis Alvarez was someone there.

He actually wasn't on the Nagasaki mission, he was on the Hiroshima mission.

But in his biography, he's like, they said they saw a hole in the clouds.

I don't think I believe them.

So that was, I think, one of the hints.

It was maybe at some stage reading his autobiography that was one of the big hints.

The other people insist there was.

But what's super clear is that whether or not there was a hole in the clouds, and probably there was a hole in the clouds just because of some of the technical things to do with their discussion, though it's definitely not obvious.

What's clear is that whether or not there was a hole in the clouds, they certainly had decided in the cockpit on that final run.