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Physicist Philip Morrison, who helped develop and assemble the Fat Man plutonium bomb, recalled in a 1975 BBC interview how the bombing of Nagasaki became difficult to stop despite opposition among some Los Alamos scientists. He described the Manhattan Project’s momentum, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman’s sudden assumption of responsibility, and military orders to drop a second bomb soon after Hiroshima. Morrison said further atomic attacks were planned for up to a year if necessary, although scientists understood the human consequences only imperfectly before witnessing the devastation. The bombings killed tens of thousands immediately and more than 100,000 people over subsequent years, while Morrison later reflected on the moral gap between abstract calculations and the reality of death.