I thought this was going to be about Lawrence's unhappiness with special relativity. Cyclotrons have an upper limit on particle velocity. As particles are accelerated, they have more mass, and the cyclotron's elegant balance between inertia and the containment fields is lost. This was the first time relativity had engineering consequences. Lawrence didn't like that, and doubted whether something as abstract as special relativity could affect his machines.
Nobody knew if bombing Japan was going to end the war, including the Supreme War Council in Japan. War Minister Anami wanted to go on with the war after the first atomic bombing, saying the Allies couldn't have more than one bomb. After the second bomb, he signed a surrender document and committed ritual suicide. There was a big Army pro-war fight-to-the-end faction, which tried a last-minute coup attempt to prevent the surrender.[1]
Nobody knew if bombing Japan was going to end the war, including the Supreme War Council in Japan. War Minister Anami wanted to go on with the war after the first atomic bombing, saying the Allies couldn't have more than one bomb. After the second bomb, he signed a surrender document and committed ritual suicide. There was a big Army pro-war fight-to-the-end faction, which tried a last-minute coup attempt to prevent the surrender.[1]
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Japans-Longest-Pacific-Research-Societ...