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Sometimes bombs fail to detonate. When the US was planning to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, was there any plan on what to do if the bomb fell but did not detonate? Was there any concern that the bomb might still have components left intact enough to still be useful to the Japanese?

by /u/JollyRabbit in /r/AskHistorians

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