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...cryptic, 20-word sentence, the Atomic Energy Commission and the Defense Department last week gave a progress report on the H-bomb. Said a joint press release: recent "successful" atomic tests at Eniwetok "included experiments contributing to thermonuclear weapons research...
...usual, the Atomic Energy Commission released only a few guarded bits of information. The next U.S. atom-bomb tests (which may be in progress already) will be held on remote Eniwetok Atoll. They will be made by Joint Task Force Three, commanded by Lieut. General Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada of the Air Force and including personnel from the three armed services, civilian government agencies, and the AEC and its contractors. No one except members of the task force will be allowed closer than 200 miles from the guarded atoll...
...Once, just after chow in an Army mess, he turned violently ill, was certain the German cooks had poisoned him. He was delighted when the Army returned him to the U.S., felt better still last March when it shipped him half a world away from Germany, to duty on Eniwetok Atoll in the mid-Pacific...
...heavily defended islands of Maloelap and Wotje should be bypassed, and Kwajalein attacked in one long, 250-mile jump. Said Kelly Turner: "Admiral Spruance and I were astounded." But Sherman was right-so right that the Navy and Kelly Turner's amphibious-force troops hopped on to grab Eniwetok. Thus the Navy's spectacular leapfrogging technique was born. Often, Nimitz remembers, he and Sherman would retire to the big map room where they would talk, look at the map and think. Said Nimitz: "Sherman never hesitated when things looked worst. He's a realist without being...
...report suggests no defense at all against the heat of the bomb, holds out almost no hope for buildings less than half a mile from the zero point. And the recommendations it does make are based on an almost obsolete weapon-not the improved bombs already tested at Eniwetok, or the hydrogen bomb that is soon to come...