Eighty-one years ago today, a nice man from Ohio named Paul Tibbets flew an airplane named after his mom to Japan and killed 70,000 people at 8:15 AM, with a single weapon named Little Boy.
An oddly comparable apocalypse was perpetrated almost exactly 2161 years earlier, on August 2, 216 BCE, when 50-60 thousand Romans lay dead or dying in pools of their own blood, vomi...