CSPAN2 Book Discussion On Nagasaki October 17, 2015
The size of a tennis ball. Generating a nearly instantaneous Chain Reaction of nuclear emissions with colossal force and energy the bomb detonated one third of a mile above detonated one third of a mile above the valley and its 30,000 residents and workers. At 11 02 a. M. , super brilliant flash lit up the sky visible from as far away as the naval hospital, 10 miles over the mountains. Followed by a thunderous explosion equal to the power of 21000 tons of tnt. The entire city convulsed. At its birth point the center of the explosion reach temperatures higher than the center of the sun, the vel...