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That one was so interesting that I didn’t even realize it was 1:20 AM on a teaching night (with a nearly one-hour commute to an 8:30 AM class!). More than 80 slides in this one, from Truman’s oath of office to the Trinity Site test.

Actually, I ended with the infamous shark attacks on the survivors of the torpedoed USS Indianapolis, which had carried the bomb from San Francisco to Tinian. It is said that this was the largest shark attack on humans in recorded history, and I can’t think of what the other candidates might be. Talk about a bad omen…