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ABOARD U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY IN BIKINI LAGOON, TUESDAY--The atom bomb test explosion sank or damaged half of the 73-ship target fleet in Bikini Lagoon but failed to kill some of the goats left aboard the battleship Pennsylvania and fish still were swimming pla- cidly today in radioactive waters...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 7/2/1946 | See Source »

...about to make its first scientific test of that power. During the earliest favorable weather after July 1, two atom bombs would be exploded at Bikini Island. The first bomb (and the fourth ever to be detonated anywhere) would be dropped on 75 obsolete warcraft anchored in the Bikini lagoon. About three weeks later, a second atom bomb would be exploded under the surface of the lagoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crossroads | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

ABOARD THE U.S.S. MT. McKINLEY OFF BIKINI--Vice Adm. W.H.P. Blandy today pronounced the Queen Day rehearsal of the atomic bomb test a success despite a series of attending mishaps, and sent a fleet of small boats into Bikini Lagoon for a full-dress radiological safety exercise involving several hundred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atom Bomb Dress Rehearsal Called "Swell" by Blandy | 6/25/1946 | See Source »

Some scientists believe, that active particles from a single bomb are carried all over the earth. After the fourth bomb explodes at Bikini lagoon this summer, the Manhattan Project may have the answer. It plans to measure atmospheric radioactivity around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Dust Storm | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Compleat Angler. In Dallas, Aquarium Curator Pierre Fontaine almost popped an eye when a nattily dressed man strolled from his car to the aquarium lagoon, dropped a hand line, immediately hauled out a huge catfish, stuffed it in a briefcase, strolled back to his car, drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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