Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman Gordon Dean was careful to point out that the U.S. does not yet claim to have an H-bomb. But it was clear that the atom has come a long way since the early days at Alamogordo. To allay U.S. worries about being on the receiving end of weapons several times more powerful than those that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brigadier General James Cooney, radiation safety adviser to the task force, said: "The immediate radiation hazard from [an] air burst disappears after the first two minutes. Rescue . . . work can begin immediately in any area where there is life...
...damning story previously told by her husband, who had already pleaded guilty. Ex-Sergeant David Greenglass had begun his tale with a flabbergasting account of how the Russians, through him and other spies, gained detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb at least seven months before the first explosion at Alamogordo (see SCIENCE). He had concluded with further incredible details of the ring's efficiency and cloak & dagger methods...
...scientists. In a voice that often dropped away to a whisper, Greenglass testified that he had no idea what he was working on until his wife came to visit him on their wedding anniversary in November 1944-eight months before the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo and at a time when security regulations were so strict that Los Alamos employees were required to use a Santa Fe post-office box address. Rosenberg had told his wife, said Greenglass, "that I was working on the atomic bomb. That was the first I knew...
Since the first atomic bomb exploded at Alamogordo in 1945, Washington and Ottawa have been hunting diligently for new uranium deposits. Reason: capacity of Canada's only uranium-producing mine, at Great Bear Lake on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is far short of U.S. needs, and overseas sources might be cut off by submarines in wartime. Last week in Toronto, William J. Bennett, boss of Canada's uranium monopoly, announced that Canada's second major mine would go into production, probably next year, at Beaver-lodge Lake in northwestern Saskatchewan. He fixed its initial production...
...cautiously confirmed the fact that the first atomic explosion had taken place in its new 5,000-sq.-mi. testing ground on the remote and barren plateau northwest of Las Vegas known as Frenchman Flat. It was the first atomic explosion in the U.S. since the historic test at Alamogordo in 1945. Most Nevadans, warned earlier in the week by the announcement of a non-nuclear "dry run," took the explosion in stride, though it rattled windows, startled early-rising tourists, and was heard as far as 150 miles away...