Word: bikini
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...correspondents realized it, but the U.S. press as well as the Bomb had been on trial at Bikini. The Bomb did its part. How had the press acquitted itself? Last week precise, Annapolis-trained Hanson W. Baldwin, military analyst of the New York Times, put into the record a stern account of slipshod work, "irresponsible sensationalism" and some more than raffish behavior...
Manhattan Project engineers had named No. 5 "Helen of Bikini." As the concrete caisson to house Helen was lowered from the weapons ship Albemarle to LSM 60, Senator Carl Hatch got in a plug for his home state by chalking on its side "Made in New Mexico." Through a specially designed opening in the tank-deck of the landing ship, the caisson was lowered several fathoms into the limpid waters of Bikini lagoon. Then all except a few specialists headed out to open water...
...Marshall Holloway stayed all night aboard the LSM with two assistants to set the controls so that Helen could be detonated by radio signals. At dawn Holloway's team (and three other men who had been overlooked aboard a target ship) were taken off. Bikini was deserted save for its guinea-pig ships with their white mice-and Helen...
...miles away aboard the press ship Appalachian, watchers saw the huge area of Bikini lagoon rise with lightning-like speed and in boiling violence. LSM 60 vanished in the twinkling of an eye. The 26,100-ton battleship Arkansas (the oldest surviving P.S. dreadnaught, dating from 1910), was next nearest the detonation point. She flopped over on her port side and was immediately swallowed...
...Bikini last week, New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Stephen White saw "an explosion so fantastic, so mighty and so beyond belief that men's emotions burst from their throats in wild shouts. . . ." It was beyond description, but he did not want his paper to be beyond describing it. On the end of his dispatch, he tacked a beseeching note to his editor: "Don't take any superlatives out of my copy. This was SOMETHING...