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Along the Road. Behind the comparatively mild reaction to the tests lie the lessons of experience. The tortuous route from the first U.S. atomic blast at Alamogordo, N. Mex., to the latest at Christmas Island stretches over nearly 17 years; it includes nearly 200 atomic explosions, about 100 megatons of nuclear energy set free in the atmosphere, 353 fruitless diplomatic test-ban meetings. The men who traveled that road were filled with doubts about their eventual destination, and at every crossroads they argued bitterly over which turn to take. Much of the history of atomic testing has been forgotten...
...have to be able to do as well as anybody else." "We Puny Things." In the predawn darkness of July 16, 1945, dance music echoed from loudspeakers as men smeared their faces with sunburn cream and waited ten miles from a 100-ft. tower in the desert near Alamogordo. Some had been working and waiting three years for this moment-and when that tower ignited at 5:30 a.m. in the world's first atomic explosion, the flash was so blinding that those who looked directly at it, even with dark glasses, never really saw it. General Francis Farrell...
When did the Russians start testing? The Russians exploded their first nuclear device in September 1949, only four years and two months after the first U.S. test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.. in July 1945. The Russian test involved a primitive fission bomb similar to the two U.S. bombs used in World War II, but the Russians must have started work immediately on the more advanced hydrogen bomb. On Aug. 12. 1953. they exploded their first test H-bomb, only nine months after the first U.S. H-bomb test at Eniwetok Island in the Pacific...
Bainbridge, a nuclear physicist noted for his work on the mass spectroscope, will leave in April for two weeks at Leningrad. Director of the Alamogordo Atomic Bomb Test (1945), he will lecture and conduct seminars on mass spectrometry. Bartlett has done research in kinetics and the mechanism of organic reactions...
...great Enrico Fermi, was born in Tivoli, Italy. Like Fermi, he came to the U.S. before World War II because of disgust with Italian Fascism. Both he and Dr. Chamberlain worked at Los Alamos on the atomic bomb, and Chamberlain helped explode the first test bomb at Alamogordo...