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| .p048 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Urey | Harold Urey ]] askes [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Nichols | Lt. Col. Kenneth Nichols ]] to find 100 tons of uranium ore. |
.p048 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Urey | Harold Urey ]] asks [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Nichols | Lt. Col. Kenneth Nichols ]] to find 100 tons of uranium ore. |
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| .p050 Mined in 1939 Congo, source of almost all Manhattan Project uranium, also fueled reactors to make plutonium |
.p050 Warned by [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Fermi | Enrico Fermi ]], mined in 1939 Congo, source of almost all Manhattan Project uranium, also fueled reactors to make plutonium |
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.p075 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Beser | Jacob Beser ]] radar fuse for [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy | Little Boy ]], flew on [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola_Gay | Enola Gay ]] .p077 Enola Gay crew mostly did not know what they were carrying, Beser figured it out .p083 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tibbets | Tibbets ]] maneuver: crash dive and course reversal .p084 bomb trajectory 4 miles downrange; dive accelerates plane while turning opposite direction . nine slant miles from detonation .p084 Tibbets smelled and tasted the radiation pulse from detonation, Beser (without goggles) temporarily flash-blinded .p087 [[ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9392976/ | Shiroi machi hiroshima ]] 1985 film White City Hiroshima .p089 [[ https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=23796 | Hiroko Tasaka ]] moved to US, married Harry Harris .p089 "her family would become bound by marriage to one of the" Enola Gay crewmembers Citation Needed .p090 "logarithmically increasing loss of life" ... huh? Pelligrino confused, may have meant "exponentially" .p091 Second mission primary target [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokura | Kokura ]] weapons plants .p092 streetcar wheels and hundreds of teeth on ground .p093 Nuclear scientist [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Nishina | Yoshio Nishina" ]] "we must make [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korechika_Anami | War Minister Anami ]] understand there is no defense against this kind of power" |
Ghosts of Hiroshima
Charles Pellegrino . 2025 . 940.5425 PEL
p001 Prologue: By Accidental Connections, or by Spooky Action at a Distance?
p001 Morgan Robertson 1898 Futility
p003 Beyond The Spectrum 1908 stories about Japan attacking Hawaii and Manila with a light superweapon
p007 ch01: Sunrise
- p006 " ... orchards of Hiroshima aflame. It smelled like cherry pie. "
p021 ch02: Butterfly, Butterfly
- p024 17yo Saito Michiko in bunker 10 blocks from hypocenter
- p025 brief unconciousness, emerges to smashed landscape, goes searching for wife
p048 Harold Urey asks Lt. Col. Kenneth Nichols to find 100 tons of uranium ore.
p049 Edgar Sengier has 200 tons of pitchblende in NYC, 1000 more tons on Staten Island.
p050 Warned by Enrico Fermi, mined in 1939 Congo, source of almost all Manhattan Project uranium, also fueled reactors to make plutonium
p053 ch03: Profiles of the Future
p075 ch04: Neutron Star
- Ch4 note 12 p281
p075 Jacob Beser radar fuse for Little Boy, flew on Enola Gay
- p077 Enola Gay crew mostly did not know what they were carrying, Beser figured it out
p083 Tibbets maneuver: crash dive and course reversal
- p084 bomb trajectory 4 miles downrange; dive accelerates plane while turning opposite direction
- nine slant miles from detonation
- p084 Tibbets smelled and tasted the radiation pulse from detonation, Beser (without goggles) temporarily flash-blinded
p087 Shiroi machi hiroshima 1985 film White City Hiroshima
p089 Hiroko Tasaka moved to US, married Harry Harris
- p089 "her family would become bound by marriage to one of the" Enola Gay crewmembers Citation Needed
- p090 "logarithmically increasing loss of life" ... huh? Pelligrino confused, may have meant "exponentially"
p091 Second mission primary target Kokura weapons plants
- p092 streetcar wheels and hundreds of teeth on ground
p093 Nuclear scientist Yoshio Nishina" "we must make War Minister Anami understand there is no defense against this kind of power"
p105 ch05: Surfing the Improbability Curve
p133 ch.p1206: All This Has Happened Before; All This May Happen Again
p163 ch07: The Fallen Sky
- ch7 note 7 p291
p179 ch08: Is It Dusk Already?
- ch8 note 1 p292
- ch8 note 5 p295
p251 Epilogue: Island in the Stream of Stars
p257 Appendix: Key Eyewitnesses