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At Potsdam, Truman agreed to a request from Winston Churchill that Britain be represented when the atomic bomb was dropped. William Penney and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire were sent to Tinian, but found that LeMay would not let them accompany the mission. All they could do was send a strongly worded signal to Wilson. [105] Bombs

Richie, Donald (16 August 2013). "The pure horror of Hiroshima". Japan Times . Retrieved 12 October 2013. One of the early studies conducted by the ABCC was on the outcome of pregnancies occurring in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and in a control city, Kure, located 29km (18mi) south of Hiroshima, to discern the conditions and outcomes related to radiation exposure. [281] James V. Neel led the study which found that the overall number of birth defects was not significantly higher among the children of survivors who were pregnant at the time of the bombings. [282] He also studied the longevity of the children who survived the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, reporting that between 90 and 95 percent were still living 50 years later. [283] Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell determined that Guam, Tinian, and Saipan in the Mariana Islands would better serve as B-29 bases, but they were in Japanese hands. [25] Strategies were shifted to accommodate the air war, [26] and the islands were captured between June and August 1944. Air bases were developed, [27] and B-29 operations commenced from the Marianas in October 1944. [28] The XXI Bomber Command began missions against Japan on 18 November 1944. [29] The early attempts to bomb Japan from the Marianas proved just as ineffective as the China-based B-29s had been. Hansell continued the practice of conducting so-called high-altitude precision bombing, aimed at key industries and transportation networks, even after these tactics had not produced acceptable results. [30] These efforts proved unsuccessful due to logistical difficulties with the remote location, technical problems with the new and advanced aircraft, unfavorable weather conditions, and enemy action. [31] [32] The Operation Meetinghouse firebombing of Tokyo on the night of 9–10 March 1945, was the single deadliest air raid in history, [33] with a greater area of fire damage and loss of life than either of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. [34] [35]By 30 June 1946, there were components for nine atomic bombs in the US arsenal, all Fat Man devices identical to the one used in the bombing of Nagasaki. [335] The nuclear weapons were handmade devices, and a great deal of work remained to improve their ease of assembly, safety, reliability and storage before they were ready for production. There were also many improvements to their performance that had been suggested or recommended, but that had not been possible under the pressure of wartime development. [336] The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, decried the use of the atomic bombs as adopting "an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages", [337] but in October 1947 he reported a military requirement for 400 bombs. [338] Statement by the President Announcing the Use of the A-Bomb at Hiroshima". Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. 6 August 1945. Archived from the original on 12 June 2019 . Retrieved 2 April 2015. Events on the ground The Nagasaki Prefecture Report on the bombing characterized Nagasaki as "like a graveyard with not a tombstone standing". [213]

In the spring of 1948, the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission (ABCC) was established in accordance with a presidential directive from Truman to the National Academy of Sciences– National Research Council to conduct investigations of the late effects of radiation among the survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [272] In 1956, the ABCC published The Effect of Exposure to the Atomic Bombs on Pregnancy Termination in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [273] The ABCC became the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) on 1 April 1975. A binational organization run by both the United States and Japan, the RERF is still in operation today. [274] Cancer increases U. S. Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, June 19, 1946. President's Secretary's File, Truman Papers". Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. p.7. Archived from the original on 1 February 2016 . Retrieved 23 January 2016. Chun, Clayton K. S. (2008). Japan, 1945: From Operation Downfall to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84603-284-4. OCLC 191922849.Hunter, N.; Charles, M. W. (2002). "The impact of possible modifications to the DS86 dosimetry on neutron risk and relative biological effectiveness". Journal of Radiological Protection. 22 (4): 357–70. Bibcode: 2002JRP....22..357H. doi: 10.1088/0952-4746/22/4/302. PMID 12546224. S2CID 250864399. Rezelman, David; F.G. Gosling; Terrence R. Fehner (2000). "The atomic bombing of Nagasaki". The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History. U.S. Department of Energy. Archived from the original on 30 August 2007 . Retrieved 18 September 2007. Simons, Lewis M. (7 June 1984). "Children of Hiroshima, Nagasaki survivors facing prejudice, discrimination in Japan". Ottawa Citizen. Knight-Rider News . Retrieved 29 January 2016.