RE: History thread [split] from "New Rule - Promoting Terrorism"
July 5, 2018 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 1:40 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 5, 2018 at 7:35 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Gen. Anami didn't think the first bomb was as bad as reports said. His second in command had to visit both cities and report back before he understood what a "rain of ruin" really meant. One plane, one bomb, one city.I read a great account of the first bombing put together by interviews with japanese first responders. I'll see if I can track it down for the thread. No one could really accept that a single bomb had caused that much devastation. Absolute communication blackout contributed to what amounted to mass confusion. The world had ended in the blast zone and no one (there) knew exactly how it had happened, or how it even could happen. The first report sent...was that a fuel car had exploded. It seems strange, but this was at the fringe of the em pulse. People came in from aide stations out in the rural sticks to help with what they thought would be an industrial fire.
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