A look at some movies released in the summer of 1986 - ones I was able to see

About Last Night...

Ruthless People

Manhunter

Top Gun

Aliens

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_film

Down and Out in Berverly Hills

Some other incidentals

Mediterranean Climate

Iraklion Air Station, Crete

Formerly the softball field there: Cretaquarium

Joe Jackson, musician

A few final thoughts on the Summer of Trinity, again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._McVay_III

Walter Griffith, the commander of USS Bullhead, who had departed the ship just before its final voyage that summer, also committed suicide, two years before McVay - and with more definite connection to the loss of his men.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_T._Griffith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Downfall - the plan to invade Japan in November 1945.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_World_Series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_World_Series

As recorded, my reason for why Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped sounds like I agree with that - at least, it sounds like that more than I intended. Really, though, my view is more of an acknowledgement of the inevitability of the war machine which built those weapons. The decision to use them, in my view, was less about particular reasons and more about why they were made: To win the war. Whether they were needed to win the war was irrelevant by the end, and trying to assess the "need" to drop them is missing that important point.

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.

Just for a different perspective.

August 26 to September 2

This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, This episode has daily events for the week ending Sunday, September 2, 1945.

Sunday, August 26,1945 - 41 Days After Trinity

Huaiyin–Huai'an Campaign

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Era

Monday, August 27,1945 - 42 Days After Trinity

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2006/february/destroyers-tokyo-bay

Tuesday, August 28,1945 - 43 Days After Trinity

U.S. occupation of Japan begins.

https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/2000119766/

Wednesday, August 29,1945 - 44 Days After Trinity

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/64-57-01

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/photograph-records/64-57-02

https://thenewswheel.com/the-west-wing-wheels-harry-s-truman/

Thursday, August 30,1945 - 45 Days After Trinity

https://spectator.org/macarthur-lands-at-atsugi-airfield-august-30-1945/

https://www.johnjgobbell.com/2020/11/03/surrender-at-tokyo-bay-by-john-gobbell/

Friday, August 31,1945 - 46 Days After Trinity

Supreme Allied Command

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/uss-west-virginia-japan-surrender

September 1945

Saturday, September 1,1945 - 47 Days After Trinity

United Nations charter

Sunday, September 2,1945 - 48 Days After Trinity

""We are gathered here, representatives of the major warring powers, to conclude a solemn agreement whereby peace may be restored…It is my earnest hope, indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage from the past, a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."

General Douglas MacArthur