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...BLAST The Enola Gay dropped the bomb at 8:15:17 a.m. Forty-three seconds later, most of Hiroshima was gone...
HIROSHIMA ?Intended target ?Actual detonation center ?0.5 mile (0.8 km) ?Hiroshima Castle ?Ota River ?1 mile (1.6 km) ?Area destroyed by blast and fire ?Buildings incinerated ?Area destroyed by blast ?To Hiroshima...
...more tempting it may be for established powers to restart the arms race. The Bush Administration is determined not just to modernize its aging arsenal but also to develop a new type of bomb, the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator--known as the "bunker buster"--which would be used to blast targets buried deep underground. Both North Korea and Iran are believed to have buried clandestine nuclear facilities. But John Deutch, Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration, argues that by talking of a new type of bomb, the Administration is undercutting its own efforts to persuade others to stay...
...young men had been. Tanweer, nicknamed Kaki, was a sports-science student who excelled at the long jump, wore flashy Western clothes and liked to drive a red Mercedes. Outside the King Kebab, one of his friends told Time he saw Kaki playing soccer the night before the blast. Khan, a well-liked adviser to children with learning disabilities, had rebelled against his family by rejecting an arranged marriage in favor of a woman he had met at university. His mother-in-law campaigned for the rights of Islamic women and had earned an invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden...
...London bombings, New York officials cut cell-phone service in tunnels leading into the city--in case anyone was planning to detonate a bomb with a cell phone. Once we accept that some attacks are inevitable, we can do sensible things to limit the damage and disruption--like using blast-proof glass in buses. Even things like emergency lighting can save lives. In London, it took more than an hour to clear the Underground. Many could not get out of cars or navigate pitch-black tunnels...