HERESY (Hershey - h)?
I have tried every combination of hershey without an h or hersheys without both h’s. I have googled looking for even the most obscure bomb sites. I have pored through synonyms for chocolate. I have considered Hershey to be a misdirection and examined other candy bars and bomb sites starting with S. Ersatz is the only 6-letter word starting with ERS-.
I got nothing.
Meaning…?
Dunno how much plainer I can make it that John Hersey wrote a book examining some outcomes of the bombing of Hiroshima.
HERSEY (Hershey without the second “H”)
(somehow all my frantic googling missed this author)
+++++
Ability to see two-by-four has something positive (8)
EYESIGHT (eight holding yes. Nice.)
Greater than units, or more than a vector (6)
TENSOR (Tens + or)
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Painful relative is affiliated with a few good men. (6)
SORKIN (sore + kin, AFGM playwright)
Satirist is a peculiar browned brother. (5, 8)
Maybe he’s not as mainstream as I thought, but this person is a Jewish Texan who ran for governor in 2006.
I know who it is, but I’m disinclined to do a back-and-forth.
KINKY FRIEDMAN (kinky fried man)
Pack follows a hound to reorder (7)
Pack follows a hound to reorder (7)
ANAGRAM (a + nag + ram)
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Ron’s lemonade mixture is inexpensive popular fare for college kids. (5, 7)
Ramen noodles (anagram)
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The surgeons used scandium and gold to reconstruct my friend’s shoulder. (7)
SCAPULA (Sc + Au + pal anagram)
Lastly supplies energy to rotate around sinister alignment (4, 6)
never mind
Is it AXIS POWERS?
Yup 
AXIS POWERS (powers after axis)
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Gamecock inoculator has trouble (5, 8)
SOUTH CAROLINA (anagram, their mascot)
At the initiation, I see a good sign in this country. (12)