Hoit hoddled needed to prove beyond a doubt that fezer and hirschberg's napam the winner of his bakeoff could burn down a japanese city. He chose to do it at dugway, the army's 800 thousand acre test facility in the middle of the utah desert. There, hoddll's team would build a perfect replica, and a german one too, for parison purposes. "It's amazing the enormity of the effort that went in to building those things," he says.
Basement laboratories. Mad scientists. Sticky gels, and a bake-off in the desert. The strange story behind Curtis LeMay’s weapon of choice. Part two.
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