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...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab...Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Moments in TIME: 1946-1956 | 5/29/2006 | See Source »

...observers on ships and planes 50 miles away watched an enormous deep-orange fireball blaze up in the distance. Then it rose to the stratosphere, trailed by a churning grey-brown pillar of water and the pulverized remains of the little sandspit of Elugelab ... Its colors lost their infernal intensity, paled to harmless-looking but deadly pastels. Bruneval, France April 14, 1947 Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle ... opened a campaign to recapture power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Moments In TIME: 60 Years in Europe | 5/21/2006 | See Source »

...hydride (or equivalent) explosions that had been set off-by the Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear of any other scientific discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: The Road Beyond Elugelab | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

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