[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sixty-five years ago, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended World War II in the Pacific. However, before August 1945, and actually well before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States and its allies had devised a potential strategic framework for Japan's defeat. These plans, of course, did not include the atomic bomb. Indeed, while Gen. Henry H. "Hap" Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces (AAF) had been informed of the bomb's development in the summer of 1943, most other high-ranking officials, including the Vice President of the United States and the U.S. Congress, knew nothing of its development or existence.
