Word: bikini
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: "Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in ... the Library of Congress. . . . Representative Americans . . . have gathered to consider with you the great crossroads to which the splitting of the atom has brought mankind. ... I think it will be of great importance. . . ." Thus Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy last week introduced one of radio's greatest public-service programs...
While Fred Learned restrained a Yankee grin and 1,000 guests hunched forward expectantly, Dr. Evans "vacuumed" him with a Geiger counter similar to the ones which will be used at the Bikini atom bomb test. When placed near his throat, the sensitive device set up a clatter which, amplified for the audience, was clearly audible in the banquet hall...
Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...
Finally, there is some doubt that the primitives really understand the force of progress. Already they have asked in hopeful innocence of atomic force: how long, after the Bomb drops, before we can return to Bikini? "I suppose," says a baffled AMGman, "that eventually we'll have to load a few alaps aboard a plane and show them why they cannot...
...feet in a stratosphere balloon, coolly waited for the bag to get low enough so that he could breathe when he parachuted. In World War II, Billy Kepner became chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command. He is now deputy commander for air in Operations Crossroads (the Bikini atom test, postponed last week-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...