Aldridge said the test in Nevada involved dropping a laser-guided bomb into a tunnel and exploding it with a delayed fuse.

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The third, and perhaps the most popular reaction to my dropping the "D-bomb, " has been the barrage of friends divulging their personal connections to mental illnesses.

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It hastened the end of World War II, which concluded within a week after the dropping of a plutonium-based bomb on Nagasaki on Aug. 9.

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Transformers Director Michael Bay then became one of the Bad Boys by dropping a Pearl Harbor-sized bomb on Paramount regarding its decision in a blog post since deleted and retracted, leading to speculation it was really the Decepticon version of Michael Bay that made the original posting.

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