Word: nagasaki
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...tolerant amusement, Civil Defense officials suddenly found themselves in demand. When the supply of booklets on civil defense ran out in Atlanta, the Constitution published a full page of excerpts. In Boston, Civil Defense Director Charles Sweeney-who as a World War II pilot dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki-estimated inquiries were "up 1,000%." A Los Angeles bombshelter builder reported: "Now we have to screen the moderately serious inquiries from the damned serious inquiries...
...Charles W. Sweeney, 41. well-heeled leather manufacturer and a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Previous experience: piloting the B-29 that flew as wing plane on the first atomic strike over Hiroshima and of the one that three days later dropped the even more lethal Nagasaki bomb...
...strike from the Marianas against Japanese cities at previously unheard-of low altitudes for the huge planes. In the first such raid, on March 10, 1945, 300 planes burned out 256,010 Tokyo buildings. LeMay then helped plan the world's first atomic destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
...told Truman that he had received still another Japanese request that the Soviets serve as peacemakers, intended to reject it. Truman thanked him for the information. In rapid-fire order, the U.S. bombed Hiroshima, Russia declared war and set the stage for its seizure of Manchuria, the U.S. bombed Nagasaki, Japan surrendered. The irony is that the Japanese did not surrender unconditionally. They wangled the only real concession that they had been holding out for: a government nominally headed by the Emperor...