Word: bikinis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's long-distance scientific atom-bomb watchers (TIME, March 12 et seq.) were convinced that a nuclear weapon fired by the U.S. July 3 over Bikini was carried by a rocket, not an airplane, and that it exploded at a height of at least 22 miles...
Testing weapons systems instead of isolated "nuclear devices" is one of the announced purposes of the U.S. tests at Bikini. One of the systems that needs testing most is the atom-armed antimissile rocket that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are believed to be developing. To protect a target city from a long-range missile, this weapon must attack its quarry high above the atmosphere...
...with a disarmingly friendly right paw. He had completed 20 years on the faculty of the University of Rochester Medical School, had spent three years as health guardian of the people involved in atomic-energy work from Los Alamos to Bikini...
When the Atomic Energy Commission allowed observers, including newsmen, to watch a thermonuclear test at Bikini atoll in late May, it told them practically nothing and got them out of the test area as quickly as possible. The rest of the tests were supposed to be secret...
Before hopping off on his inspection of nuclear-weapons testing grounds at Eniwetok and Bikini, snow-capped Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson watched with vital interest as two B-52 crewmen snapped him into his parachute harness...