If it had even one more top secret in it the plane could not have taken off < /s>. Did the editor not notice the worx "pounds" was missing?
If the atomic bomb had not worked, Col. Tibbets would probably been a small part of thousand plane air raids firebombing cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although the ability to use one bomb to destroy a city had profound geopolitical effects, it mattered very little to the residents whether they were killed by a burst of radiation and an overpressure wave or being doused in napalm and being burned alive or suffocating from lack of oxygen as your city burned around you.
Exactly. They were doomed regardless