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...came in 1944, when he went to Los Alamos as a key man on the Manhattan Project. His assignment was to provide the explosive power for triggering the first atomic bomb, assemble the bomb so that it would go off. On the eve of the first test at Alamogordo, Kistiakowsky, another scientist and a military police officer with a submachine gun guarded the bomb throughout the night...
Thirteen years and 113 announced nuclear and thermonuclear blasts after the first fateful mushroom cloud at Alamogordo, N. Mex., the U.S. committed itself to a grave decision. President Dwight Eisenhower, appearing before TV and newsreel cameras in Washington, announced that the U.S. was ready to suspend its nuclear-weapons tests for one year effective Oct. 31. The President attached two major conditions. He required that 1) the U.S.S.R. agree to begin political talks by Oct. 31, aimed at setting up a world network of posts equipped to detect nuclear explosions, presumably in Red China as well as the U.S.S.R...
...story came from the A.P.R.O. Bulletin, published by the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization of Alamogordo, N. Mex. In its current issue, the Bulletin carried an interview with Jung, whom it described as A.P.R.O.'s consultant in psychology. The Bulletin did give the information that the interview was a reprint of an earlier interview that appeared in Switzerland's Weltwoche in 1954 (TIME, Oct. 25, 1954). The Bulletin version differs considerably from the full Weltwoche one, which may be partially explained by its translation into English for the Flying Saucer Review of London, where the Bulletin found...
...lover, Space Surgeon Colonel Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), who lent him much of his big collection of LP records, is now a stockholder. Rothman traded radio time for food and furniture, and Sima, an amateur artist, illustrated the monthly programs. In return for job printing, the Alamogordo newspaper got free newscasts. To pay for delivery of a fifth child, Max installed FM equipment in the obstetrician's house, acquiring another listener in the bargain. After seven months he quit his job at the missiles development center to spend his time signing up new customers and "keeping people...
...like no earthly quiet," he reported. "On earth there are always traffic sounds and dogs barking or the wind just whistling. But in space there's nothing but quiet." He leaned his head forward against his chest-pack parachute and promptly dropped off to sleep. (Back home in Alamogordo, N. Mex., Simons' wife and four children were camping out in the backyard "so we could be under the stars with daddy...