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In popular Culture: Lucky Strike

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

There is a great short story, or novelette, by Kim Stanley Robinson in which Tibbers, hot dogging, crashes the Enlola Gay a week before the mission, killing all on board, and the bombardier of the replacement plane deliberately misses Hiroshima, changing history. The story is called Lucky Strike. This should be added to the popular culture section. ~2025-42899-40 (talk) 14:48, 12 January 2026 (UTC)Reply