Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deke Parsons kept working. A top naval ordnance expert who had been with the Manhattan Project almost from its start, he sent current through Little Boy's test leads, watched calmly for the green monitor lights that told him Little Boy's mighty power was still in check. Fewer than 5 ft. of hollow shaft separated Little...
...Boy's two uranium masses. One mistake could have vaporized Deke Parsons, the eleven crewmen and the Enola...
...after Parsons had cut the umbilical cord linking Little Boy and the Enola Gay, the bomb was "final"-a mighty instrument of war. Four minutes from the unsuspecting target city, Parsons threw the toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that sunny August morning, Little Boy fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops...
...located, say the Egyptians, on the French Riviera, in Jordan, Lebanon, British Aden, Cyprus and Kenya), the officials produced the following: "Nasser is a criminal who forcibly became the leader of his country. Nasser's gangs are never successful except in destruction, ruin and bankruptcy. Dear, sweet Jimmy Boy Nasser, a curse be upon you, a plague be upon you and all your household...
...Naomh Eanna, put ashore 300 holiday excursionists at Galway and headed out into the Atlantic. A Canadian destroyer and an Irish corvette turned their prows to the disaster area. The Jules Verne radioed: "We now have aboard eleven bodies: seven women, two men, a little girl and a little boy...