Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...power and responsibility of the next President of the U.S. may have been vastly increased by a report that arrived last week from Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific: the first hydrogen bomb, perhaps 1,000 times more powerful than the first atomic bombs, was exploded...
...Rebuilding Eniwetok...
...Possibilities. Then things began to happen. Several methods of greatly improving bomb performance showed up in the theoretical calculations. Both the Los Alamos physicists and their bosses back in Washington got excited. They longed to try out the new designs at once, but tests at Eniwetok cost $20 to $100 million, and required a fleet of ships, 9,000 men and several months of time. Why not a test on land and right around home...
...more tests in Nevada; eventually the AEC hopes to fire an "open shot" witnessed by the press, the newsreels, even by television, if the necessary special circuits are set up in the desert. But to test its really big bombs, it has decided that it must go back to Eniwetok. The reason: "We don't want to blow up the whole state of Nevada...