Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...atomic news, good or bad, the Manhattan dailies last week pounced on some remarks made by Soviet scientific adviser Semen P. Alexandrov. who is a bigwig at Moscow's Central Institute of Research in Non-Ferrous Metals, and was one of Russia's two official witnesses at Bikini. It might be useful, Professor Alexandrov had suggested, to have a "balance sheet" which would show the amount of each nation's raw material and the efficiency of mining methods. It might also be useful to compare notes on how uranium and thorium deposits were classified. Russia, he said...
...composition," they had to write an original piece on Retrospectin!! the Past Year Since the Termination of War (almost all of the aspirants praised democracy). Asked to identify such newsworthy designations as GHQ, Bikini, UNRRA, etc. on the vocabulary test, all but ten got GHQ. One thought that Bikini was "the place where the American fleet was crushed by Japanese forces"; three listed UNRRA as the capital of Turkey...
Using "restricted" movies of the Bikini tests to illustrate his points, Major General Leslie R. Groves, Commanding Officer of the Manhatten project will address the Harvard Engineering Society on the atomic bomb and nuclear energy tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock...
Test Charlie, the explosion of the sixth atomic bomb (in water three miles deep outside Bikini Lagoon), was postponed indefinitely last week by presidential order. The announced reason: Charlie would not add enough new information to the better-than-expected data collected at the first two Bikini tests. The unannounced and more compelling cause: economy. With both the Army & Navy scrabbling to make a combined $1.6 billion budget cut, Charlie looked like a $35-million baby who would not be missed...
...sorry animal survivors of the Bikini atom blasts were headed home. At the Naval Research Center at Bethesda, Md experts would study the effects of radiation-lesions, recoveries or lingering deaths. In other laboratories other experts were already hard at work on Bikini clinical material. Out of their studies, they hoped would come better understanding of "radiation sickness," newest, most fascinating and terrifying of man's self-inflicted ills...