Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report amounted to official verification of a story told much better in scores of letters mailed home by members of the H-bomb task force (TIME, Nov. 17). The bomb (as the letter writers flatly called it) was loaded aboard a Navy ship at San Francisco under heavy guard. It was placed in a special compartment, the door was welded shut, and heavy chains were welded across the door...
...bomb was unloaded at a small island, about 35 miles from Eniwetok. Ships of the task force ringed the island at a radius of about 30 miles on the morning of the explosion. Zero hour was 7:15 a.m., Nov. i. The men put on dark glasses, turned their backs and covered their eyes. Then the bomb exploded with the light of "at least ten suns," as a ship's navigator reported...
Mastery of the H-bomb meant that the U.S., in its search for ever more powerful weapons, had caught something of the secret of the sun's own power. It was the kind of event to date the beginning of a new era. But the men who watched the test-including a sailor who drew a diagram of the explosion in his letter (see NEWS IN PICTURES)-caught the meaning better than any of the headlines. They simply called the explosion "Lulu...
...free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column by a web of filmy vapor. Typical comment from the oldtimers: 'Holy cow. That sure makes the A-bomb a runt...
Another eyewitness sent a description to relatives in Lima, Ohio, who gave it to the Lima News. "About 15 minutes after shot time," he wrote, "the island on which the bomb had been set off started to burn, and it turned a brilliant red . . . Within six hours, an island that once had palm trees and coconuts was now nothing. A mile-wide island had actually disappeared...