380 DASA 2019-2 EISENBUD: Yes. TAYLOR Vas ait true in Hiroshima that essentially the entire area that was ipsited spottily burned until everything was gone’ WARREN: Pretty much, PAY LOR: How about Nagasaki? WARREN On the way down, or on the way back from there by train, fwert to Osake and then to Yokahama and back into Tokyo. The ditference in the cemains was that in cities that were not hit by the atom bomb there were little islands in parks-—a little bit of shrubhery here and there and parts of buildings, Certainly a lot more chimneys were standing up and it was quite different from the complete that ashes that were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Sure the spectacular big tactory chimineys and the concrete burldings..... PAYLOR Were they completely putted, though, by fire so that everything inside would burn? WARREN Either that or the wainscotting stripped off. A good many were gutted because of short circuits, FISENBUD: Staff, [don't think I've ever seen reports on the weath- er conditions in Navasaki and Hirosaima in the days preceding the bombings, Do you recall whether it was generally wet or very dry? WARREN: There was a lot af cloud cover and, you see, Hiroshima was only a secondarytarget, But the pilot happened to sce it in a hole inthe clouds. So he turned around and went for that because it was a tarpet on lis Iist. [think Nagasaki had quite a few clouds but not as badly cavered, DUNHAM Merril asked what had the weather been the previous tuo wecks, FISENBUD- Yes, WARREN: Robe was the prime target, Nagasaki the secondarytarget, and he actually went to Kobe and he turned around, yes,