Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the war, General Kepner was air commander at the Bikini atomic tests, more recently has been commander of the Air Force's proving ground at Eglin Field, Florida. In sending him to Alaska, the Defense Department was putting a veteran interceptor on top of the world, along the short Arctic air route to the U.S. from Russia...
...signal a go-ahead to the scientists. If they were successful-as they believed they might be-the H-bomb would draw on the sun's method of transforming hydrogen into helium (TIME, Jan. 16) to produce an explosion dwarfing the atomic bomb blasts loosed at Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Bikini, Eniwetok. One such H-bomb might spread destruction over a radius of ten miles...