World War: Secret Weapon

Great Britain disclosed last week that a "new and highly secret" ammunition had already gone to work on U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. Speculation centered on depth charges: this was perhaps a depth charge as correspondingly powerful as Britain's much vaunted superbomb (which, it is claimed, can level a whole city block of four-story stone buildings). Whatever it was, it remained, last week, just "stuff."

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