Word: alamogordo
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...parking lot, members of the Alamogordo Chamber of Commerce busily hand out leaflets warning that radiation on the site is still above average levels. A booklet adds that it is only one-fifth as great as the radiation received from a chest X ray. No eating, drinking or smoking is permitted within the ten-acre, fenced-in area around ground zero, lest radioactive materials be ingested. "What's a little radiation?" scoffs 14-year-old Lee Hutchinson, visiting Trinity for the second time. "It's bad at Three Mile Island because that's in the middle...
...certainly is. One hundred and fifty miles from the southern border of New Mexico and just over 100 miles from Alamogordo, the site lies between two jagged mountain ranges in a valley named by the conquistadors Jornada del Muerto (Dead Man's Walk). It is remote and entirely unpopulated, the perfect testing ground for the plutonium monster that the "longhairs" were concocting at Los Alamos in 1944. That winter Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atom bomb, was pressed to give the site a code name. The erudite scientist glanced down at some lines of John Donne...
More than he knew, "Give-'em-hell" Harry Truman was quite faithful to his predecessor's set policy. During the Allied leaders' Potsdam Conference in July 1945, Truman learned that the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex., had been a success, enabling him to tell the Russians, as Churchill put it, "just where they got on and off." Indeed, some revisionist historians have insisted that U.S. officials used the bomb against Japan primarily-if not solely-to impress their military might upon Russia. But Sherwin disputes this interpretation, despite his conviction that both Roosevelt...
...spread of atomic weapons, but the nightmare of potential nuclear holocaust persists. Recent events, in fact, suggest that the dangers from nuclear proliferation and the atomic arms race are probably greater now than at any time since the first mushroom cloud rose over New Mexico's desert near Alamogordo three decades ago. Last week, for instance, West Germany agreed to sell Brazil facilities and technology that could enable Brasilia to develop nuclear arms. Meanwhile, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union are pushing ahead with the development of new weapons that could undermine whatever progress may be made...
...theories hold that nothing in the universe can ever move faster. The constant (represented by the letter c) appears in his famous equation E=mc², the formula for the conversion of mass into energy, which was grimly proven July 16, 1945 in the first atomic blast at Alamogordo...