As hard power, the worse-than-useless Norden Bombsight was never up to much.
But its failures were kept as secret as its technical details and instead it was highly publicized as America's war-winning secret weapon.
All this Sam Slick PR was soft sawder soft power - phoney soft power created around (supposed) hard power.
The equally near-uselessness of atomic bombs, circa 1945 , was also kept as secret as its technical features and it too was sold - via much publicity - as a war-winning weapon...
Bunkum was at least as postmodern as it had ever been modern....
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