Manhattan Project engineer speaks about Nagasaki bombing

James Schoke, an engineer involved in the Manhattan Project, pictured during a recent interview with Kyodo News at his home in the U.S. state of Florida. Schoke, 91, said he was against the use of nuclear weapons against civilian targets and that the United States "could have waited" before going ahead with the A-bombing of Nagasaki, its second nuclear attack on a Japanese city. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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