Cousins writes of his conversations with MacArthur, MacArthurs views about the decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were starkly different from what the general public supposed.

• 从中新社的报导推断，从喷发时间和现象看，没有任何自然地下火山爆发的迹象，可以确认是地下大爆炸引发的地下冲击波形成的超强气流将地下建筑物混凝土被覆层击碎并喷射到了天空中。