Japan blocked presentations on nuclear effects at 1955 U.N. confab

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2. Bad enough that the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was a nasty experiment.

There were Strangelovian military people itching to see what that type of bomb would do to a living city because we'd built the capacity to mass produce these plutonium bombs. And we did mass produce them.

The Manhattan Project was huge. We'd built "120 Fat Man" bombs by April 1949, all were "retired" by late 1950 for better bombs.

The research in Nagasaki was extensive, very detailed, and considered Top Secret, something to keep away from the Soviet Union. This was in Japan's political interest too.

It didn't have a whole lot to do with civilian nuclear power. Cold War secrecy and paranoia infected all high technology at the time.