Target Committee

But such pristine targets had already become scarce in Japan. If the first choice the Target Committee identified at its first meeting was hardly big enough to confine the potential damage, it was the best the enemy had left to offer ... 

So the Target Committee sitting in Oppenheimer s office at Los Alamos under the modified Lincoln quotation that Oppenheimer had posted on the wall— this world cannot endure half slave-and half FREE—remanded four targets to further study Kyoto, Hiroshima, Yokohama and Kokura Arsenal. 

With a better sense for having visited Los Alamos of the weapons it was targeting, the Target Committee scheduled its next meeting for May 28 at the Pentagon. 

There on the same day the Target Committee was meeting, this time with Paul Tibbets as well as Tolman and Parsons on hand. Much of the discussion concerned Tibbets training program for the 509th Composite Group. He had sent his best crews to Cuba for six weeks to give them radar... 

And that was that the Target Committee would schedule no more meetings but would remain on call. 

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