<span>Chicago
Chicago was the focal point of the dairy and meat market of the United States. It was a railroad center serving all areas of the nation and was near the Great Plains. Its South Side rail yards were the site of the celebrated Chicago Stockyards, where dairy cattle were penned before shipment somewhere else. A portion of the breeds still meandered the fields openly, originally of European stock brought over by the Spanish in the 1500s.</span>
When the bomb was finally detonated atop a steel tower, an intense light flash and sudden wave of heat was followed by a great burst of sound echoing in the valley. A ball of fire tore up into the sky and then was surrounded by a giant mushroom cloud stretching some 40,000 feet across. With a power equivalent to around 21,000 tons of TNT, the bomb completely obliterated the steel tower on which it rested. The nuclear age had begun.
The Sons of Liberty were created.
