European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes columns comments the mushroom shape of our fears by Goodman the 40yearold newspapers on my desk Chart the terrible plot Day by toward its horrific one june 450 planes drop tons of incendiary bombs on three japanese leaving behind one solid mass of on july 350 planes drop tons of firebombs on cities with populations of on july 550 planes drop More tons of fire on a single plane drops a single the bomb they Call Little in the dry words of the new York times news sum one bomb hit Japan but it struck with the Force of tons of where it landed had been the City of Hiroshima what is there now has not yet been it is hard for those of raised in the nuclear to imagine what americans thought when they read the news 40 years i have asked my elders who were younger then than 1 am a Bombardier who hew Over struggles to remember i just thought it was a bigger a who was waiting to invade i guess in going to still others who read the papers on that Distant sum Mer with eyes glazed by years of War must have turned from the news to the ads that bordered it looking Forward to fall and a Fine fall suit come to our third floor and select in air conditioned the Wool suit youll the casualties May have sounded less awesome after four years of death world War ii had already smudged the lines that distinguished Soldier from civil front line from some britons had died in the germans in the i reborn Bing of japanese in one nights firebombing of the killed those first minutes in Hiroshima May have been More numbers to those already we did not yet know about skin that peeled off and faces that about radiation sickness and the silent leu Kemia that struck even we haunt yet heard the stories of the the Surv in the first Days of the atomic the scientists talked about their accomplishment and the military about Cost effective a colonel said at a press conference that since the bomb had done the work of that makes atomic Energy far cheaper than any other Way of yet in this seamless daily flow of there was also an abrupt an often Sublime understanding that the atomic bomb had changed repetition  Dull the Early rumblings of existential the sounds of it were there in president Truman dramatic announcement the Force from which the Sun draws its Power has been loosed against those who brought War to the far they were in the solemn cadences in the Vatican lonely moral judgment the last Twilight of the War is coloured by mortal flames never before seen on the Hori Zons of the universe from its heavenly Dawn to this infer Nal they were in the Rush to proclaim that this bomb could be a Force for could portend a new Dawn of Energy at a club for now the newspapers have even the Micro film is hard to we have Learned in intimate detail what happened on the ground at Hiroshima and naga a yet in mad Competition with the we collectively produced some bombs 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