Word: bikinied
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...scientists and military observers crawled up & down the blackened sides of seared ships in Bikini's lagoon and stumbled over armored steel decks which had been dimpled by the unearthly blast, they needed little imagination to translate this laboratory test-by multiplying it fivefold or tenfold-into a scene of real war. What they saw was plenty...
...atomic bomb dropped at Bikini was not the clap of doom, but it was an ominous sample. Because it sank only a handful of ships, around the world there were some who scoffed at it. But military men saw a point that few laymen seemed to consider: in war a power with mastery of the atom would no more attack a prime enemy target with one bomb than a machine-gunner would go into battle with one round in his magazine...
Christendom's faithful, nearly as apprehensive, crowded French churches in record numbers to be shriven. Millions of listeners sat paralyzed by their radios. Said the Paris announcer: "Now you will hear some silence from Bikini." After 15 seconds of torturing silence, the announcer said: "A listener just phoned to say that the bomb went off 45 minutes ago. It is hard to believe that the listener is better informed than...
Nelson's Hat. The Thing had grown a little less awful as a result of Bikini; its apparently infinite power was finite after all. Le Canard Enchaîné ran a cartoon of a fashionable woman refusing a rendezvous the day before the test: "I really can't tomorrow. I have the end of the world. How about the day after?" Cried Communist Humanité: "The bomb lost some of its prestige. . . . They will no longer be able to play so easily with the nerves and imaginations of people. . . ." Said a disappointed London clerk: "I rather imagined...
...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...