Meanwhile, on a beach in Hiroshima…

The Hiroshima Atomic Bombing Birthed a Strange, Never-Before-Seen Material, According to a New Study smithsonianmag.com

The 1945 blast melted buildings, sand and seawater together and flung the result onto local beaches as tiny glass beads. Examining them, researchers found grains containing a metal alloy that has never been catalogued anywhere else, natural or synthetic. The bomb, in effect, invented a material.