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...Warren, a former radiology professor at the University of Rochester--and before that at Harvard. He had also been chief medical officer of the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and was deeply involved with medical aspects of the first atomic bomb tests at Los Alamos and Eniwetok Atoll...
...tested its first hydrogen bomb, dubbed "Mike," on Nov. 1, 1952, on Eniwetok atoll, 3,000 miles west of Hawaii. It exploded with a blinding white fireball more than three miles across, generating so much energy, Rhodes writes, "that the crews of the task force 30 miles away felt a swell of heat as if someone opened a hot oven." The yield was 10.4 megatons, a force a thousand times more powerful than the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, a blast greater than all the explosives used during World...
COVER U.S. Air Force photograph of the world's first hydrogen-bomb blast, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands...
...fight in favor of the hydrogen bomb (a single specimen of which completely flattened the island of Eniwetok in the Pacific and renendered it an uninhabitable, flat desert), Cold-War-oriented advocates of the hydrogen bomb sought to erase the distinction between large conventional weapons and small nuclear ones, so-called tactical nuclear weapons, by use of the cute term "nukes" to refer to these allegedly minor nuclear weapons. Today to see the sign "no nukes" on the bumper stickers of Volkswagens and other cars driven by the educated elite at Harvard and elsewhere, brings back memories of that...
...without sighting a single one. In their glittering lagoons and rain-forested redoubts, the Japanese positioned their power to control all the Pacific in World War II-and the U.S. fight to thwart them made a litany and legacy forever of such unlikely flecks on the map as Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Saipan, Tinian and Peleliu. The Enola Gay roared off from Tinian to drop the A-bomb on Hiroshima; years later the shock waves of the world's first H-bomb tests rolled out from Micronesia, denuding the little atolls of Bikini and Eniwetok. Today, Nike X antiballistic missiles zoom...