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Shock and Wobbly Awe

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When [the nuclear] option proved to be politically untenable … the [US] Air Force came up with a new bombing plan … to deliver a series of large bunker-bustersconventional bombs filled with high explosiveson the same target, in swift succession … without provoking an outcry over what would be the first use of a nuclear weapon in a conflict since Nagasaki … One complicating aspect of the multiple-hit tactic … is the liquefaction problemthe fact that the soil would lose its consistency owing to the enormous heat generated by the impact of the first bomb. It will be like bombing water, with its currents and eddies. The bombs would likely be diverted.

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