Word: bikinied
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...plush-bottomed, stuffy Major General Leslie R. Groves, announced that he wanted the reporters at Operation Crossroads "locked up on the press ship, taken out to a certain point, write what they can see of the explosion, and then send them back home." The Navy said it wanted the Bikini tests treated like "the story of the year, maybe of the decade, and possibly of a lifetime." By last week it was plain that the Navy (and the press...
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...
Some scientists believe, that active particles from a single bomb are carried all over the earth. After the fourth bomb explodes at Bikini lagoon this summer, the Manhattan Project may have the answer. It plans to measure atmospheric radioactivity around the world...
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...