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You can't blame them for what they did, not really. Their war, ensnaring the most powerful countries in the world and sending millions of their finest young men and women out as if to the slaughter, had been raging for nearly six years. Both sides showed no sign of faltering, entertained no thought of surrender. Something had to be done to break the psychological stalemate. Something that would make men fall to their knees in awe even as their cities and their people disappeared in a flash of white light. What the scientists and the handful of informed onlookers say today in the desert under heavy rain will never be known by man, for the ag