A look at each day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 1945 - the six weeks on either side of the Trinity test on July 16. 

(For future weeks, we'll have an entry for each day, but we already did May 1945 in the previous episode.)

May 30, 1945. Wednesday. Memorial Day. It is the 60th day of the Battle of Okinawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day

 

May 31, 1945. Thursday. It is the 61st day of the battle of Okinawa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_B._Craft 

 

June 1, 1945 Friday. It is the 62nd day of the Battle of Okinawa. 

Times around the world, as the meeting of the Interim Committee starts, 11AM in Washington DC

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=9

The members of the Interim Committee include (not a complete list)

Mr. George H. Bucher, President of Westinghouse - manufacture of equipment for the electromagnetic process.

Mr.Walter S. Carpenter, President of Du Pont Company - construction of the Hanford Project.

Mr. James Rafferty, Vice President of Union Carbide - construction and operation of gas diffusion plant in Clinton.

Mr. James White, President of Tennessee Eastman - production of basic chemicals and construction of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex

The committee also discussed how difficult it would be for the Soviet Union to replicate the work that had been done on the atomic bomb. 

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/research-files/notes-meeting-interim-committee?documentid=NA&pagenumber=4