EXCERPT OF TELEPHONE CALL BETWEEN OAK RIDGE FACILITY AND WHITE HOUSE, 2300 HRS, JULY 16TH, 1945
"What do you mean: it didn't work?"
"Sir at this stage we do not know what has gone wrong, and it is a risky procedure to enquire as to how it has failed."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Sir, my father always told me never to return to a lit firework if it had failed to go off..."
"Whats your point, Doctor Oppenheimer?"
"The point, Mr President, is that this is the biggest lit firework in the world, and I don't know why it did not go off."
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