Cultural Influence
- The book Sunwing written by Kenneth Oppel was inspired by this plan.
- The song "The Story Of The Japanese Bat Bomb" from the 2008 LP Doris, Buzz and Friends, written by John Krane, is also based on this plan, though it projects that its inventor was saddened by the bombs imminent detonation (there is no evidence of such conflict).
- Adams and his bat bomb project are the subject of Derrick C. Brown's poem, "The Project Known as X-Ray," collected in Scandalabra.
- Some anime series like Mega Man (1994) and Bomberman Jetters (2002), and video games like Tiny Toon Adventures: Toonenstein (1999) use "bomb bats" as weapons and/or enemies.
- Alan Scott's novel The Anthrax Mutation (original title, Project Dracula) used the "Bat Bomb" concept, but had the bats carrying volatile pouches full of powdered anthrax bacilli - a genetically-engineered strain of anthrax made to be very infective and very resistant to the effects of sunlight and temperature. The pouches fall free of the bomb casing and disintegrate once free of the low-oxygen environment inside the bomb; once in the air, the bats fly free and find niches to sleep in during the day, presumably in homes and offices.
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