In the initial pictures of the test, there are people dressed in whites playing on the tennis courts. And then after the bomb goes off, you see that the tennis courts are abandoned. There's no disaster. They know how far things will fly based on the amount of explosive that they've put inside the device. This was the fire bomb that fezer and hirschburg entered in the national defense research committee.
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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