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...could split the atoms of the uranium isotope, U-235, giving a mighty gush of energy. Besides energy, their "fission" produced more flying neutrons. If enough of these in turn split uranium atoms, the reaction would maintain itself, gain momentum. It would flash through all the uranium, like the flame of a match through excelsior...
...Manhattan District now had to develop, did not happen naturally, chiefly because only one part in 140 of ordinary uranium is U-235. Most of the rest is another isotope, U-238-which, instead of splitting like U-235, absorbs the newborn neutrons with the result that the atomic flame goes out like a match in wet excelsior...
Suddenly, at the No. 5 elevator of the Saskatchewan Pool Terminal, Ltd., where the Sonora was loading, a pillar of flame shot 300 ft. skyward. There was an earth-shaking roar, heard several miles away. No. 5's cement walls, towering 180 ft. above dock level, fell apart like cardboard. The top four floors of the big bin were sheared away, and fell in a death-dealing avalanche of concrete and twisted steel, smashing nearby freight cars pancake flat. Concrete pillars, 2 ft. square, were tossed through the air like matchsticks...
...life what must be in the mind of the Kamikaze flyer who succeeds or of the flyer who fails? Flak, a great storm of it, for what seems like minutes in a continuous shot, searches after a retreating plane, and at last connects. The plane comes down streaming flame. Another, that seems unhit, comes abruptly to pieces in midair. A heavy suicide plane with one wing gone, hurtles over & over with sickly oafishness as it falls. Another swoops in a long, low slant, just clears the heads of the crew, chops into the water like a spent dart: U.S. sailors...
...bomber gored through the thick steel and stone of the building as if they were papier-mâché. Then, in a flash of flame, the gasoline tanks exploded. In another instant flames leaped and seeped inside & outside the building...