>Let's be fair.
>
>Tanking TWO nuclear bombs and sinking only due to incomplete
>pre-bombing maintenance is a pretty metal way to go.

True! And very satisfying to those of us who can't help but think, years later, that the whole business was kind of pathetically petty.

(Although those who survived Able were probably helped out somewhat by the fact that the drop was, to use the technical parlance, a wild-ass miss.)

--G.
You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
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