Anami said that the army’s technical advisers were skeptical of the existence of an atomic bomb, but that an investigatory mission had been sent to Hiroshima to learn the facts. At a meeting of the newly formed “Atomic Bomb Countermeasure Committee,” representatives of the Technical Board said they doubted that the Americans could have built such a bomb, or if they had, they could not have transported such an unstable device across the Pacific. They speculated that Hiroshima had been hit by a “new type [of] bomb with special equipment, but its content is unknown.” The press was authorized only
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