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...most total single factor of power in history. The Administration decided to make certain that the U.S. knew as much about the problem as security would allow, determined to release to television and press next week an edited film of Operation Ivy, the first thermonuclear test at Eniwetok, in November 1952-complete with a montage of estimated effects of a similar bomb on Washington and Manhattan. And this week Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission returned to Washington from the atomic testing grounds to announce that a second thermonuclear test blast had been "successfully" set off last Friday...
Horrifying reports about the first "H-bomb test"-at Eniwetok in the fall of 1952-have spread around the world. Some of the rumors sounded silly, but none except a trusted few could judge how silly they were. Last week New York's Representative Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, announced that the reports were, in fact, true...
...Figure. Speaking to a Chicago convention of sand, gravel and ready-mixed concrete dealers, Congressman Cole revealed a single, overwhelming fact: "The thermonuclear test of 1952 completely obliterated the test island in the Eniwetok Atoll. It tore a cavity in the floor of the ocean-a crater-measuring a full mile in diameter and 175 ft. in depth at its lowest point...
...Silver Star for gallantry), then buckled down to a sucession of staff and training jobs. Modest, loyal, and a bug for detail, he moved to one tough assignment after another: chief of the Army's Operations and Plans Division (1943), boss of the 1948 A-bomb tests at Eniwetok, director of the Defense Department's weapons-evaluation system, Army Vice Chief of Staff. Yet he remained more anonymous than most Washington ghostwriters. "How is it, Ed," a friend once asked him, "that your name is never in the headlines?" "I guess I'm just the general nobody...
From the shores of Makin and Eniwetok...