Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pasadena, a California Institute of Technology geneticist declared last week that atomic-bomb radiation does indeed affect heredity. Dr. Ernest G. Anderson displayed some misshapen ears of corn-second-generation descendants of corn seed that had been exposed to radioactivity in the Bikini bomb tests. Said he: the Bikini corn, which produced a large percentage of abnormal offspring, may be a forecast of tragedy to come among the descendants of Hiroshima survivors...
...Atomic Age rolls on toward its lurid future, more & more people are losing their homes because of it. The U.S. Navy was as gentle as possible with the bewildered, evicted natives of Bikini; but the Navy could not explain. The Russian-German authorities in the scenic Erz Gebirge (Ore Mountains) of southern Saxony did not have to explain. The local Germans knew quite well that the Russians were mining pitchblende (uranium ore) as fast as possible, and they knew what...
...Fourteen months after the underwater atom-bomb explosion Bikini Atoll...
...Rongerik Atoll, "King" Juda of Bikini and his people prepared to move again. They had never quite understood why the U.S. Navy wanted their island; they were told it would be "something good for mankind," and so they agreed. Now, after a year and a half on smaller, less fertile Rongerik, they were ailing. So the Navy prepared Chapter Two in the Bikini odyssey. Juda and his people were to be shipped to Ujelang Atoll, 400 miles to the west. Ujelang, it was explained, was larger, more fertile. But what ailed Juda's people most was homesickness. "We want...
Fourteen months after Test Baker (the underwater atom-bomb explosion), Bikini Atoll is safe for human settlers-if they don't stay more than a year. Such was the cautious word last week from two U.S. scientists, Drs. William H. Hamill and Russell R. Williams, Notre Dame chemistry professors...