First intercontinental bomb drop happened 75 years ago this week

Karthick Nambi
Nov 7 · 3 min read
Inflated balloon bomb Source: Wiki

It’s beachfront near the coast of San Francisco. There is some strange debris washed over to the shore. The public gathers around the strange package. The media was alerted about the incident and they were also present in the scene. FBI was called to investigate the debris. The next day every news agency got a circular from the government not to publish an article on the…

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Karthick Nambi

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A vivid engineer with interest in history and technology

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