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John that's true. James Scott the author of the new book Black Snow, Curtis Lemay, the far

bombing of Tokyo and the road to the atomic bomb. Heywood Hansel is in place to 20th

Air Force consists of two bomber commands at 20th and 21st. They're launching Thanksgiving

1944 and early December to Christmas 1944 or the early launching of the B-29 strategic bombing

25,000 feet pressurized cabin. James the puzzle here is that you introduce that it doesn't work for

a very simple thing whether how so James. Which Japan is a you know as an island nation out of

the Pacific it has notoriously cloudy rainy weather and so some months and then of course if you're

doing daylight precision bombing you need to see in order to be able to put your bombs on target

and then Japan and some months has as little as three days of clear weather and the ability to

predict those days is is a near impossibility and so you've got this terrible weather for bombing

and then on top of that they discover that high up in the heavens average a pan are these crazy

violent jet streams for winds blow as much as 230 miles per hour and those are like the winds

that batter Mount Everest and of course that the bad weather in the jet streams just combined to

completely wreck bomber accuracy and so those are two of the problems that Hansel faces another one

that he has is the B-29 is a brand new plane and as you noted earlier it's an incredibly

expensive gamble that Arnold has taken it costs $3.7 billion to develop this plane

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