Time Machine

Atomic Bombs

Me: So, what your first reaction to hearing about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Him: Honestly I didn't know what to think, a single bomb destroying an entire city? It was something unheard of, it was terrifying to think that something so destructive could be unleashed upon the world

Me: What did you do?

Him: I thought and thought, and I couldn't think of anything that could save us if one of those things was used against us, the best the government could think to do was tell children to hide under desks

Me: So you did nothing?

Him: There was nothing we could do, nothing our government could do, we were helpless, if those things were to be used, it would be the end of everything
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Me: You worked on developing the Atomic Bomb didn't you?

Him: Yes, but I was just doing what they paid me to do, I had no doubt that the testing would fail miserably, when it worked so well i was awestruck

Me: What exactly did you do?

Him: I was just another scientist, no one important, just a face in the background

Me: So you didn't think it would work but you still stayed there and kept doing your job?

Him: It was good money, and I didn't exactly have people lining up at my doorstep handing me job offers
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Me: What was it like being a soldier before the bombs dropped?

Him: Not gonna lie, it was pretty terrible, my buddies dropping all around me, pushing and pushing trying to take some God forsaken island none of us had ever even heard of

Me: And how did it change?

Him: We were happier than we had been in a long long time, they told us the war was about to end, they just never told us how