Lest we forget

[Ozme52]

To correct a few errors, though: there were no "live" (using fissionables) misfirings during the American program, although it was a huge concern.

Actually EB... that's what I actually said.

(I don't believe the first few Manhatten Project test firings worked. The first few only scattered their detonation materials across the desert... and we only actually officially set off one bomb with fissionable materials...)

We also did have another bomb available when the war ended.

Are you sure? Our two bombs weren't even using the same technologies, we had so little in the way of fissionable materials. One was enriched uranium and the other plutonium.