Since (to the best of my knowledge..please feel free to correct) Lancasters didn’t fly combat missions over the Japanese home islands, putting the bomb(s) in a “new” type would have been silly from a security point of view.
If the colonials were smart enough to come up with the bomb and the B-29 (arguably the most advanced type of the war that saw widespread service…German “paper planes” don’t count)…you’d think they’d be advanced enough to design a bomb shackel.:rolleyes:
The point is, when they started developing the bomb they didn’t have anything to deliver it with. The 29 was still undergoing testing, wasn’t in action yet & the standard bomb bay wasn’t big enough anyway.
& don’t forget that most of the work brains behind the bomb were a bunch of Hungarians… From reading the book it’s an absolute bloody wonder they managed to do it when they did. There’s one case of some bloke putting a report away in his desk instead of passing it up the line & that alone caused a 3 month delay. Also looks like they might have had the bomb at least a year earlier if they’d listened to the Brits.
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