But there was definitely a decision _not_ to drop the bomb on Germany—made long before either Little Boy or Fat Man had been built, before the Trinity test, and before Germany surrendered.
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Stephen Schwartz
Today in 1943—more than two years before V-E Day and the defeat of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany—the Manhattan Project’s Military Policy Committee eliminated Germany as the target of the still unproven atomic bomb, selecting the Japanese fleet at Truk Atoll in the Pacific Ocean as the best target.
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Also significance of last item on Agenda?