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Ponderous point -

The bomb the Enola Gay and Gen. Tibbets dropped had never been tested. Crazy! Who would go to war with an untested weapon?

It says something that the first test was over the enemy on 6 Aug 1945. That's how confident our engineers and scientists were.
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