Word: alamogordo
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Blacked out for two hours were some 50 cities and towns, including El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Truth or Consequences, Las Cruces and Alamogordo...
...bomb that would bring Japan to her knees. "Oppie," as he was known to his colleagues, was relaxing over a volume of John Donne's poems when word reached him that the Air Force had granted a site for the test in the Jornada, 55 miles northwest of Alamogordo. Asked to suggest a code name for the site, Oppie glanced at the line he had just read...
...that moment in creation when God said, 'Let there be light.' " To another observer, Harvard Chemistry Professor George Kistiakowsky, the blast suggested the last impression of "the last man in the last millisecond of the earth's existence." In reality, of course, the road from Alamogordo has led neither to Eden nor to Armageddon but to atomic stalemate, to a world in which the superpowers between them have ten tons of nuclear destruction for every human being on earth...
Fewer and fewer Americans, about one out of three, live in the great outdoors now celebrated almost entirely in never-ever television westerns. In a curious miracle of abandonment, Americans have become strangers in a landscape that they believe has built their national character. But not all. North of Alamogordo and east of Tularosa, south of Hondo and only six miles crow flight from an Apache reservation-in the dusty desolation of New Mexico-Artist Peter Kurd works in a perpetual state of wonderment...
...people schussing and slaloming next weekend. Some citizens of Phoenix, Albuquerque, and points in between will strap skis on top of their station wagons, in apparent defiance of the dry, hot desert air, and head for Ski Cloud Croft or Sierra Blanca in the Sacramento mountains north of Alamogordo...