Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Obsolete Pilots. Nevertheless, Kindelberger thinks the piloted airplane itself is rapidly heading toward obsolescence as a military weapon; he regards the guided missile as the freshest egg in the basket and believes that North American is its leading mother hen. At the Government's test site at Alamogordo, N. Mex., North American's "NATIV" (North American Test Instrument Vehicle) has soared ten miles high at supersonic speeds. His aerophysics laboratory at Downey, Calif, is ready for actual production of missiles controlled from ground to ground...
Died. Pauline Lord, 60, Broadway star of the '20s and '30s; after long illness; in Alamogordo, N. Mex. Though her greatest roles were tragic (Anna in Anna Christie, Zenobia in Ethan Frome), she showed fine comic talents as Abby in The Late Christopher Bean, as Mrs. Wiggs in the 1934 movie (her first and last) Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Cast in a good many flops during her career ("I have always played everything that was put before me"), she usually got high praise from the critics in both good plays...
...across) would be fused or vaporized. Outward from the center would be circles of death and damage exactly like those of an air burst, but smaller. Radioactive dust, from pulverized buildings, would be an added menace for those in the path of the wind. The central crater (as at Alamogordo) would be a no man's land for months, perhaps indefinitely, because of lingering radioactivity in fused steel and stone...
...Time Has Come." High on Admiral Sherman's priority list was the weapon the Navy had been thinking about ever since the first A-bomb exploded at Alamogordo: a nuclear-powered submarine. Research and development of atomic power plants had been under way under the Atomic Energy Commission since 1947. Sherman thought that there was no reason to wait any longer on the scientists. He figured that the ship could be in operation within three years after Congress provided funds. Said Sherman: "We will never know until we have tried it. I think the time has come to build...
Both uranium and hydrogen bombs will leave some radioactive residues. If a uranium bomb is exploded near the ground (as the first one at Alamogordo), the "fission products" make a small area radioactive for a long time. But most of the fission products rise high in the atmosphere. When the bomb is exploded 1,80b ft. above the ground (as at Hiroshima), virtually all the fission products are carried up, where they do no damage...