Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Them (Warner) are ants, but not the kind one usually shares a picnic with. Caught in a radioactive fallout from an atomic-test explosion at Alamogordo, a desert colony of Camponotus vicinus has suffered mutation into a race of creatures more than ten feet long. They are discovered by Myrmecologist Edmund Gwenn after two people disappear in the desert and two others are found dead with their carcasses full of formic acid...
...Girl Fees. Another silent witness was Andrew Frost, who was suspended a fortnight ago as assistant FHA director for New Mexico. Did he ask a contractor to throw a party, with girls, on the night of a ground-breaking ceremony? Did he attend another party at a motel in Alamogordo, N.Mex. at which a contractor supplied three girls at a cost of between $400 and $500? Did contractors pick up the tabs for two fishing trips to Mexico? Did a building supplier send him two carloads of concrete block for his own house? Frost refused to answer...
...colleagues had to change the world, that they had to triumph over men who might, through stupidity and immorality, betray society-which Oppenheimer, at least, had only recently discovered, and which had become precious to him, as his salvation from what he considered the sin of Alamogordo...
Died. Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
While Truman, Churchill and Stalin were at Potsdam, news arrived of the successful test of the atomic bomb at Alamogordo. The momentous intelligence came in a code message: "Babies satisfactorily born." Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, showed Churchill the message and translated it for him. The U.S. and British leaders, who had been downcast by the desperate Japanese resistance on Okinawa, were immensely cheered...