Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Within three years, the Atomic Energy Commission expects to be running one of the Navy's fast new submarines on an atomic power plant. Before summer, a task force will test late-model atomic bombs at the atoll of Eniwetok, the AEC's proving ground. Scientists have been quoting 1955 as the target time for cheap atomic-generated electric power. Three years of AEC work are nearing the payoff...
...tremendous period of expansion. We are now committed to an atomic armament race until some sort of an international control is created. This means increased production and hopped-up bombs; rumors of a six-times-more-powerful-than-Nagasaki weapon have been indirectly confirmed by the forthcoming Eniwetok tests. Electric generators run by atomic piles are well off the drawing boards; so are propulsion units for ships and even aircraft. Some laboratories are gingerly experimenting with radioactive gas as a weapon...
...GORTNER Honolulu, T.H. ¶ Says the University of Washington's Dr. Lauren Donaldson, director of the AEC-sponsored investigation at Bikini and Eniwetok: "What we have found, up to 1949, is that radioactivity still contaminates Bikini after three years. The quantities of radioactivity are minute, it is true. But we know that the activity is being circulated about the lagoon and is being retained and concentrated in the tissues of fish, animals and plants. We also know that these concentrations can produce radiation of sufficient intensity to form a hazard to health and life...
Within 48 hours, more facts came out. The explosion in Russia did not equal the intensity of the Alamogordo bomb, much less the later Eniwetok bomb. It had been set off deep in Russia, over land, not under water; the date of the explosion was somewhere around Sept...
...publicly praised the "record of loyalty and character in this whole project." With a patient confidence, Lilienthal began to take Hickenlooper's charges apart. For one thing, Hickenlooper had put all the blame on Lilienthal, though AEC and its laboratories (Argonne), atom plants (Hanford) and proving grounds (Eniwetok) are governed by a full five-man commission, and not by Chairman Lilienthal alone. And of more than 500 formal decisions taken by the commission only five had not been unanimous, Lilienthal said...