One particularly nice detail in the piece, the kind of detail you could only get from talking to real survivors shortly afterwards, is the kinds of theories and rumors that were going around the day of/after the bomb. People thought the Americans had sprinkled gasoline and lit it on fire, or thought that there had been some kind of trick involving dusting the city with magnesium. The weird rumors remind me of the kind of stuff I heard on the day of 9/11.
