 As part of his work related to the Project, he also interviewed the airmen who flew on the mission to drop the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.Laurence himself flew aboard the B-29 "The Great Artiste", which served as a blast instrumentation aircraft, for the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.He visited the test Able site at Bikini Atoll aboard the press ship "Appalachian", for the bomb test on July 1, 1946.