Word: eniwyetok
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...atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy tapped Starbird for overall field boss; Starbird in turn selected Ogle to run the scientific end of the show. Since Eniwyetok and Bikini were uncomfortably close to sizable Asiatic populations and technically under the control of the test-skittish United Nations, Kennedy persuaded Prime Minister Macmillan to let the U.S. test at Britain's equatorial Christmas Island, 1,200 miles south of Hawaii...
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