Talk:Interim Committee

Military advice
no links or discussion of opinions contrary to this are listed - top generals oppsoed use in the manner discussed, 75.163.147.50 (talk) 09:48, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
 * This article is about the Interim Committee and its decisions. For post-war debates, see Debate over the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:44, 16 February 2016 (UTC)


 * then article could discuss composition and exclusion of military leaders who were more aware of military strategy and war ramifications rather than chicken hawk civilians, as item on jurys can talk selection and Voir dire. Juror1 (talk) 01:23, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
 * The article discusses the composition of the Interim Committee. It was not specifically charged with making recommendations on the military use of nuclear weapons but the composition of the committee and the close relationship between the wartime use of nuclear weapons and post-war policies regarding them inevitably led to the Interim Committee's involvement. The Target Committee that met at Los Alamos on 10-11 May 1945 included Brigadier General Thomas Farrell, Colonel L.E. Seeman, Colonel William P. Fisher and Captain William S. Parsons USN, along with scientists Joyce C. Stearns, Richard Tolman, Robert Oppenheimer, Charles Lauritsen, Norman Ramsey, John von Neumann, Robert R. Wilson, William G. Penney and David M. Dennison. As the article notes, there was a movement at the time for nuclear weapons to be placed under civilian control. Hawkeye7 (talk) 02:23, 24 February 2016 (UTC)