Word: bikini
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...three days last week, when the international clouds seemed darkest, Harry Truman was convinced that the atomic bomb tests at Bikini should be canceled...
Everyone had carefully refrained so far from inviting UNO's Atomic Energy Commission to the forthcoming test at Bikini. Army & Navy preparations for that provocative display of power went on apace...
Letters to newspapers seldom mentioned it. Those which did were mostly concerned with its subsidiary aspects. Some indignant citizens took pen in hand last week to protest the Navy's plan to expose a group of dogs and goats in the forthcoming tests at Bikini Atoll. A few jittery West Coast housewives made inquiries as to the possibility of the Bikini blast setting up 1) a high wind, 2) a tidal wave, 3) an earthquake. But almost nobody in the country seemed concerned about the chances of the world being atomized later...
...blast like a hundred hurricanes will whip the still lagoon. A pressure wave will strike across the Pacific, perhaps to be felt by sensitive instruments in San Francisco and Washington. An earth wave will shoot through the sea floor toward distant seismographs. What will happen to the ships in Bikini Lagoon, no one knows...
...reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that the coast is clear, the Navy's Bureau of Ships, its medical units, and its associated scientists will enter Bikini Lagoon to see what the Model-T bomb has done to the U.S. Navy...