Curtis lamay was a member of the bombing mafia. He would champion something called the b 70 bomber, an airplane so absurdly complicated that only two were built. The bombs fell from the b 20 nines in clusters. They were small steel pipes, inches long, weighing six pounds and packed with t ant and na bom,. little baby bombs, each with a long silver gauze streamer at one end. All told, by morning, One thousand 665 tons of nape bomb dropped on tokio in one night.