As you know, when atoms are split, there are a lot of pluses and minuses released. Well, we’ve taken these and put them in a huge container and separated them from each other with a lead shield. When the box is dropped out of a plane, we melt the lead shield and the pluses and minuses come together. When that happens, it causes a tremendous bolt of lightning and all the atmosphere over a city is pushed back! Then when the atmosphere rolls back, it brings about a tremendous thunderclap, which knocks down everything beneath it.
Looks legit to me
I find it funny that the article says that he mistakenly describes an antimatter bomb, I mean how would he have known about an antimatter bomb?
For someone who has no idea about nuclear fission, he did a great job at making something up. His imagination was credible enough to safe his life.
“Mistakenly by coincidence”, in this case.
What he really described was… a capacitor. Except for the lead part. And one that would melt itself. But whatever worked.
Japan would have fought until they all died regardless. The nukes gave the Emperor an excuse to override the military leaders and ordered them to surrender. This satisfied the Japanese code of “honour” because a God told them to commit a disgraceful act of surrender, not themselves. Even then, many still commited seppuku.
This is a pop culture myth. There was some resistance to the idea of unconditional surrender in the Japanese government (partly because of the emperor), but at the time the bombs were dropped, the Japanese leadership had agreed on surrender as their course of action and were attempting to strike a deal with the Soviet Union to mediate the terms on their behalf.
