Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FULL STORY OF THE DEATH OF DR. LOUIS SLOTIN AS TOLD BY A VISITING SCIENTIST ADDS AN IRONIC TWIST TO TIME'S STORY [TIME, JUNE 10]. SLOTIN, WHOSE FIELD WAS ORIGINALLY BIOLOGY, BECAME SO EXPERT AT HANDLING SUBCRITICAL MASSES FOR BOMB ASSEMBLY THAT HE WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF TESTING THE MATERIALS FOR OPERATION CROSSROADS. HE WAS WORKING ON HIS LAST ASSEMBLY ON HIS LAST DAY IN THE LAB BEFORE TAKING OFF FOR THE PACIFIC...
...workmen run like rabbits,, The quake lasted for 45 minutes, but was only noticeable for two. Nobody was killed. Seismologists explained that the quake had come from the ocean floor, 200 miles west. But almanac readers knew better. That was the day a B-29 dropped a practice explosive bomb at Bikini Atoll. The earth had twitched slightly, like a horse plagued...
ABOARD THE U.S.S. MT. McKINLEY OFF BIKINI--Vice Adm. W.H.P. Blandy today pronounced the Queen Day rehearsal of the atomic bomb test a success despite a series of attending mishaps, and sent a fleet of small boats into Bikini Lagoon for a full-dress radiological safety exercise involving several hundred...
...Blandy, commander of joint Task Force One and director of Operations Crossroads, watched the army super-fortress "Dave's Dream" drop an explosive but non-atomic dummy bomb close to the center of the 75-ship target...
...Word by word Canada is asserting her atomic independence. Last week Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe told the House of Commons that no one in Canada knows how the U.S. makes atomic bombs. And he did not think Canada would be given the information if she asked for it unless it was thought Canada really needed it. . . . But, he butted: "I have no doubt that, having the . . . explosive material which we make in Canada, our ordnance people could make a bomb of their own. I doubt very much whether they will do it, but that will...