"Easy," he said. "They fucked up! It didn’t work!" He rolled the armchair behind her. "Here, Laura, sit down, sorry.... It didn’t explode! It’s sitting in a tea-garden in downtown Hiroshima right now. Dead, useless. It came flying out of the sky— tumbling , the eyewitnesses said—and it hit the bottom of the garden and it’s lying there in the dirt. In big pieces."