THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2026 ATOMIC CAKE INCIDENT AT 80 “…it still seems utterly shocking to me that an atomic explosion, containing thousands of incinerated human bodies, should be represented…by a gruesome concoction put together by pastry cooks.” – Rev. A. Powell Davies in a letter dated 11/12/1946. “We intended the cake as something to eat.” – Lyman K. Stephens, baker, quoted in TIME, 11/18/1946. [An accompanying photo shows two men and a woman cutting into a cake shaped like a mushroom cloud.]