> it was the very first strike ... 'very first strike' sounds a bit too loaded in the context of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and WW2 as a whole. It may have been a ras

> it was the very first strike ... 'very first strike' sounds a bit too loaded in the context of Hiroshima/Nagasaki and WW2 as a whole. It may have been a rash action, perhaps a 'first nuclear strike'. 'very first strike' sounds loaded to the extreme when we consider it was one of the last actions in a multi-year contracted conflict.