NOW do we have your attention Bushido Boy?

[randy]

On this date in 1945 the Imperial General Staff was given another reason why you should never get involved in a land war in Asia.

A frosty one to the men of Bocks Car.

[308Mike]

I'd say so!!

[mekender]

Stingray had one hell of a write up on the Trinity test a few years back:

http://www.atomicnerds.com/?p=580

The first paragraph is epic:

Today in 1945, at 5:29AM mountain time (the same time this post went up, if scheduled publishing went correctly), the scientists and engineers of The Manhattan Project did something the world had never seen. 35 miles outside of Socorro, NM, five tons of conventional explosives crushed a comparatively small sphere of the not-perfectly-understood element Plutonium into a super-critical ball of Fuck Tojo. Predictions for the size of the blast ranged from the project optimists stating that nothing would happen and the whole thing would be a bust, to the slightly nervous possibility that the atmosphere would take part in the chain reaction, incinerating the entire planet (which, technically, would still have ended the war).

[Rumpshot]

to the slightly nervous possibility that the atmosphere would take part in the chain reaction, incinerating the entire planet (which, technically, would still have ended the war).

Talk about gluball worming!!!