Nathaniel Philbrick Quote
In a letter to Benjamin Franklin he described how the explosion of the Augusta created a cloud like none other he had ever seen: a thick smoke rising like a pillar and spreading from the top like a tree. It did not become the symbol of a new and terrible age of destruction for another 168 years, but in the fall of 1777 the skyline of Philadelphia was darkened by the shadow of the mushroom cloud.
Nathaniel Philbrick
In a letter to Benjamin Franklin he described how the explosion of the Augusta created a cloud like none other he had ever seen: a thick smoke rising like a pillar and spreading from the top like a tree. It did not become the symbol of a new and terrible age of destruction for another 168 years, but in the fall of 1777 the skyline of Philadelphia was darkened by the shadow of the mushroom cloud.
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