Cable News Clips

…with images of what The Bomb (as we called it then) can do to human flesh and bone.

Anybody younger than me who remembers images from the Vietnam war? Remember that screaming little girl running naked down a road trying to escape the napalm eating her skin?

Yeah, like that and worse.

I didn’t know about the US military holding a football game, but otherwise, if there was a “coverup” it was a damn inefficient one. There was photojournalism, there were books, there were what-if tv movies — I’m quite sure we were not told everything, but what we did know scared us shitless.