ATOMIC BOMB: Did the Japanese Know It Was Coming?
Were the Japanese caught completely off guard when an atomic bomb destroyed Hiroshima on August 6, 1945? Or did they suspect that something big, something terrible, was coming? In Episode 4 of THE ATOMIC BOMB, we investigate the Japanese military’s top secret Special Intelligence Unit, that was monitoring the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” as it was en route to Japan with the atomic bomb.