. >> my name is linda chapman. thank you very much, very instructive. i would say all history is revisionist and maybe to make a pa jorty of one side or the other is a pa jorty. but i would like to say that dropping the bomb was an imper ty and had to be done. can we talk about strategy? i'm no expert in this. why civilian targets? why not the military targets, as you suggested. there was a huge build up of the japanese military there. why wasn't that the target of the bomb? and maybe the second question is, why did we have to drop two if it were about really ending the war and not just making a test of these two bombs that were developed. thank you. >> i guess this is aimed at me. again, it was general groves who was in charge of establishing what was called the target committee. this was done in april. the first time they met was april 27th. groves, a master bureaucrat. he says i have nothing against committee as long as i get to choose the members. so he chose the members and they were a collection of military people and scientists. and the army air

. >> my name is linda chapman. thank you so much. very instructive. would say all history is revisionist and maybe to make a pa jorty of one side or the other is a pa jorty. but i would like to say that dropping the bomb was an imperty and had to be done. can we talk about strategy? i'm no expert in this. why civilian targets? why not the military targets, as you suggested. there was a huge build up of the japanese military there. why wasn't that the target of the bomb? and maybe the second question is, why did we have to drop two if it were about really ending the war and not just making a test of these two bombs that were developed. thank you. >> i guess this is aimed at me. again, it was general groves who was in charge of establishing what was called the target committee. this was done in april. the first time they met was april 27th. groves, a master bureaucrat. he says i have nothing against committee as long as i get to choose the members. so he chose the members and they were a collection of military people and scientists. and the army air for

. >> my name is linda chapman, thank you so much, very instructive. would say all history is revisionist. maybe to make a pejorative of one side or another is a pejorative. anyway, that's just my comment. actually i would like to go back and say that dropping the bomb was an imperative, and that it had to be done. can we talk about strategy? anybody who knows, i'm no expert in this. why targets? why not the military target as you suggested. there's a huge build-up of -- of the japanese military there. why wasn't that the target of the bomb? . and maybe the second question is, why did we have to drop two? i mean, if it were about, really, ending the war and not just making a test of these two bombs that were developed? thank you. >> i guess this is aimed at me. again, it was general grove who was in charge of establishing what was called the target committee. this was done in april. the first time they met was april 27th. groves, a master bureaucrat. he says i have nothing against committee as long as i get to choose the members. so -- so he chose the

. >> my name is linda chapman. thank you very much, very instructive. i would say all history is revisionist and maybe to make a pa jorty of one side or the other is a pa jorty. but i would like to say that dropping the bomb was an imper ty and had to be done. can we talk about strategy? i'm no expert in this. why civilian targets? why not the military targets, as you suggested. there was a huge build up of the japanese military there. why wasn't that the target of the bomb? and maybe the second question is, why did we have to drop two if it were about really ending the war and not just making a test of these two bombs that were developed. thank you. >> i guess this is aimed at me. again, it was general groves who was in charge of establishing what was called the target committee. this was done in april. the first time they met was april 27th. groves, a master bureaucrat. he says i have nothing against committee as long as i get to choose the members. so he chose the members and they were a collection of military people and scientists. and the army air