John Ptak, a rare science book dealer, invites readers to "take the poll that was given to the scientists at the Chicago Metallurgical Lab (U Chicago arm of the Manhattan Project) in July 1945 about, well, what to do with the bomb." He adds, "I'd be VERY curious to see how the results of people taking it today might look against the originals."
This is the straightforward poll of Compton and Daniels which asked 250 scientists at the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory arm of the Manhattan Project in pre-Trinity July, 1945. (Originally published as "A Poll of Scientists at Chicago, July 1945," in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 1948, 44, p63. and again published in Compton's Atomic Quest in 1956.) You can take this test anonymously. Please try and keep in mind the time and place of the events unfolding: the Japanese resistance to the unconditional surrender ultimatum developing at Potsdam; the resistance to massive air raids; the tenacious fighting in the islands at the outreaches of the Empire; the thousands of American POWs; the circulating estimates of the coming Japanese invasion casualties (hundreds of thousands of Americans, far more so Japanese), and so on.
The Manhattan Project Poll on the Use of Atomic Weapons, July 1945
