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BOMB VS METROPOLIS. This composite photo- 

 graph roughly compares the height of the Baker 

 Day cloud with the height of New York's greatest 

 skyscraper. An exact comparison to scale would, 

 if anything, be even more extreme than this; the 

 great cloud rose to approximately 6000 ft., and the 



Empire State Building is only 1250 ft. in height. 

 The greatest cauliflower cloud would overshadow 

 a considerable portion of central Manhattan. It 

 requires little study to appreciate that one atomic 

 bomb is capable of producing catastrophic de- 

 struction, 



