Word: alamogordo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tracy Johnson, 35, a lab manager for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., based in Stratford, Conn., says he would not have considered uprooting his family from their home in Alamogordo, N.M., if the relocation package hadn't been right. Among other things, Sikorsky provided Johnson and his wife Donna, 35, with detailed information on child-care options available for their 18-month-old son Jacob. They were given the qualifications, services and costs for all day-care centers and baby-sitting services within a 15-mile radius of the new home they are purchasing in Milford. "The day-care center is gorgeous...
Well, yes. The most portentous scientific achievement since Alamogordo will need a weighing of pros and cons. No kidding...
...before. In every century, people have concluded that theirs was the most enlightened of all times and that any scientific questions not currently answered might never be. In this century, however, maybe it's finally true. Once you've unleashed the power of the atom in the sands of Alamogordo, the Einsteinian interchangeability of energy and matter becomes a settled question. Big ideas like quantum physics and the structure of DNA have been established just as conclusively...
...Conant witnessed the culmination of the bomb development efforts, known as the "Manhattan Project," when he viewed the dawn testing of the finalized atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico...
Demonstrating Conant's struggle with the international implications of nuclear arms, Hershberg writes that Conant compared the Alamogordo test to the apocalypse: "Perhaps my imagination was only premature on a time scale of years...