Word: nagasaki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year; its chilling museum of atomic horrors has been massively and masochistically documented in endless magazine and newspaper articles, TV features and movies. Seventeen years after the first atomic blast, the world has seemingly forgotten about the only other A-bomb ever used in warfare. It burst over Nagasaki at two minutes past eleven on the humid morning...
Past v. Present. The second Abomb, code-named Fat Man, was a 20-kiloton plutonium weapon even more devastating than the crude uranium device that leveled Hiroshima Aug. 6. Lobbed through a hole in the heavy clouds that blanketed Nagasaki that day, it burst 1,850 ft. above the city with a mighty blue and yellow fireball and five successive shock waves that prompted a ten-year-old's description: "I thought an airplane must have crashed into...
...After the war, many scientists, appalled at the human toll their work had taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deserted the field of nuclear-weapons development. Ogle was not one of them. Says he of the wartime deaths the bombs had caused: "Our purpose was to do just that." Congress placed atomic development under a newly created, civilian-controlled Atomic Energy Commission in the hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral...
...Second atomic bomb dropped by U.S., on Nagasaki, Japan...
...explode 17 years ago, Ogle was elated. "It was the biggest dawn we'd ever seen," he recalls. "A fantastic moment. When it was over, I felt a sense of great relief and intense pleasure that it had worked." Even when atomic bombs killed thousands at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ogle felt no revulsion. "I wasn't horrified," he says. "After all, our purpose was to do just that...