Word: yucca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Howard W. Blakeslee, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning science editor (since 1928) of the Associated Press; ten days after he covered the atom bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nev.; of a coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington...
Long before H-hour, millions of expectant televiewers across the U.S. were gathered around their sets. As the minutes ticked by, the announcer on News Nob, ten miles from Yucca Flat, Nev., described the scene tensely. Only 15 minutes before H-hour, the picture grew shaky, wobbled, then disappeared. When it came back, there was a new camera angle, this time from Charleston Peak, 57 miles away. Then, at 9:30 a.m. P.S.T., viewers got what they were waiting for: a live telecast of an atomic explosion, the first ever covered on a television network...
...atomic proving grounds in Nevada, a giant electronic counting machine with an amplified beat ticked off the seconds. The first atomic military combat maneuvers in the U.S. were to start with an atomic blast. Anesthetized dogs, sheep and rats were spotted at proper intervals across Yucca Flat. Specially briefed troop detachments, including one unit of the Sixth Army band, stood by to take their part in the demonstration...