Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little. The Atomic Energy Commission announced in Washington that the 1954 series was officially ended, and reporters estimated that six H-bombs of varying sizes had been exploded. But further tests were expected to be so routine that the AEC was setting up a permanent testing staff for the Bikini-Eni-wetok proving grounds in the polite but unhappy Marshall Islands...
...that its tremendous power has come to mean to the free world. If there is some anxiety over the exact circumstances in which the United States would drop its first atom bomb in the next war it is because American genius and skill have now given that bomb-as Bikini has shown this month-the force of 'five hundred Hiroshimas' ... If the battle for . . . reasonable tolerance now being fought in the United States engages us strongly it is because if that country ever lost the liberal way of life democracy would be in mortal peril everywhere...
...Iron Cooling . . ." Crewman Sanjiro Masuda, 29, one of the most seriously injured, told what had happened. On the morning of March i, the Fortunate Dragon rode at anchor 71 miles east of Bikini, and well outside the announced danger limits of the U.S. atomic proving grounds. Masuda and seven of his mates were pulling in the nets when the explosion went off. Said Masuda: "We saw strange sparkles and flashes of fire, sparks and fire as bright as the sun itself. The sky around them glowed fiery red and yellow. The glow went on for several minutes-perhaps...
...lived in one of the block's houses, had moved to Schenectady, N.Y. to work as an engineer on a secret guided-missile project for General Electric. In 1946 Inslerman, in a way never publicly explained, became one of the few civilians who attended the atomic tests at Bikini. Called to testify before a grand jury and in the second Hiss trial, Inslerman confessed nothing, pleaded the Fifth Amendment's protection. But in Inslerman's Schenectady home, the FBI found a Leica whose imperfections matched the scratch marks on Chambers' famed pumpkin film...
...became chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...