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  • A second or two of possibly unintentional visual humor during the blast. Just after all unprotected people have been vaporized, an apparent third bomb creates massive blast that punches through a grove of trees and bends them back, only for them to spring back up like a children's toy in the resultant vacuum. Of course, this comes from Stock Footage of the Encore shot (27 kt airburst, effects test) of Operation Upshot-Knothole, these trees were part of a simulated forest.
  • In a Freeze-Frame Bonus in the lead-up to the attack, after Bruce Gallatin exits a supermarket overwhelmed by panic-buyers, a sign in the window says that this was its grand-opening sale. Suffice to say, the store made a healthy profit that day, but couldn't really do anything with the money. Black Comedy at its finest.

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