Word: eniwetok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before hopping off on his inspection of nuclear-weapons testing grounds at Eniwetok and Bikini, snow-capped Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson watched with vital interest as two B-52 crewmen snapped him into his parachute harness...
During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
...Commissioner Thomas E. Murray, formally proposed such a confrontation between man's representatives and the H-bomb. "I propose a meeting at the summit," he said, "this time at the atomic summit . . . I propose that we convene this meeting at our Pacific proving ground at the island of Eniwetok, and there detonate a large thermonuclear weapon before an audience of all the peoples of the world. History has seen many dramatic events. This one might outrank them all, because the earthly destinies of mankind are bound up with the whole meaning of the event . . . Man now has the power...
Murray admitted that "inevitably, the demonstration at Eniwetok would be a demonstration of American power," but he emphasized that "it would not be a belligerent act, nor a threat of any American intention to start a war; there is no such intention . . . The purpose would not be to strike terror into the hearts of men, but to implant understanding in their minds...
...Love with the Boss. Unlike the Caine, the destroyer-minesweeper Zane, to which Wouk was assigned, swept mines aplenty-off the Marshalls, Kwajalein, Eniwetok, the Marianas, Guam, Saipan, Tinian. In two years Wouk was successively assistant communications officer, communications officer, ship's first lieutenant and navigator. Later he was reassigned to another minesweeper, the Southard, saw action in six Pacific campaigns. He rose to executive officer, had been recommended to become captain of his ship when it was wrecked in a typhoon at Okinawa...