The fear of this would be great for everyone at this time period because they haven't seen anything so powerful and have so much of an impact. To know that something un herd of can cause a lot of damage and not knowing if it could be dropped near you would keep people in constant fear. Now we know that it could cause such a crater and probably hit from New York to the most of Maine wiped out. It would be like someone telling you there is someone who could kill you that your near everyday and not know who the person is and if they will ever kill you. It is something important because people don't wanna die and they are not very educated on the greatness of these new type bomb. Also at the beginning of the Cold War everything was a race with Russia who also had control over weapons and were in a race with us for everything we did. The Cuban missile crisis didnt help either knowing that their are bombs pointed that could take out florida and other parts of the southern united states.
