Within days of those atomic strikes, Japan surrendered, ending World War II.

"My station was in the navigator's compartment, and I had a hole about eight inches in diameter to look out," he told Time magazine on the 60th anniversary of the atomic strikes.

Even if the culminating atomic strike succeeded in smashing the thinking machines on Earth, other incarnations of the computer evermind would likely retaliate.

Hudson Harbor tested "actual functioning of all activities which would be involved in an atomic strike, including weapons assembly and testing, leading, ground control of bomb aiming".

During the final atomic strike on Earth they had fired upon him, pursuing his craft as he attempted to flee the planetary battleground with the last update of Omnius.

The crews who flew the atomic strikes were seen by Americans as saviors who had averted the huge casualties that were expected to result from an invasion of Japan.

An atomic cruise-missile strike against Bandar-Abbas?

He stated that the bunker was designed to withstand an atomic strike.

"After the atomic strike, there were not only no landmarks left on the terrain, but the area itself became unrecognizable," the newspaper said.

Karlson, good warrior, perhaps you want the assignment of telling his three children, they lost their mother only yesterday in the atomic strike.