Ah, August 6, 1945, the day of the great experiment.
The problem was that the experiment couldn’t be done just anywhere; bouncing rubble wouldn’t prove the majesty and beauty of the new science.
No, only a pristine town that had never been bombed would do. A town with absolutely no military value, one that had stood untouched for the entire duration of the war was needed, one so irrelevant to the outcome of the war that it had never been targeted.
How else to measure the effect of the experiment and avoid the trouble of sorting out the new destruction from the old destruction?
New York Times to use the word ‘torture’ when describing torture
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/07/new-york-times-torture-in-style-update
Ah, August 6, 1945, the day of the great experiment.
The problem was that the experiment couldn’t be done just anywhere; bouncing rubble wouldn’t prove the majesty and beauty of the new science.
No, only a pristine town that had never been bombed would do. A town with absolutely no military value, one that had stood untouched for the entire duration of the war was needed, one so irrelevant to the outcome of the war that it had never been targeted.
How else to measure the effect of the experiment and avoid the trouble of sorting out the new destruction from the old destruction?
All in the name of science, of course.