Duty later called Safferstein to the Mariana Islands in the western Pacific, where U.S. forces had built airfields to launch long-range raids on Japan itself, and in mid-1945 the two bombs from Los Alamos had been secretly delivered by Navy ship.
He said that the company had tried a range of initiatives to protect itself from the growing competition, but had decided, after racking up the huge losses, that a complete closure of its UK operations was the only answer.