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...verse, however, which accompanies and gains substance or non-substance from the pictures deserves closer scrutiny. This verse appears in many cases within the sketch itself, in what may be described as either a cloud or a balloon. The opening lines create such a frenetic and frightening effect, that I will quote them out of context and with no possible frame of reference, as is the current predilection...
...tension begins to grow. Graves can change his mind up to one second before the explosion deadline, but he has already given the word that sends between 30 and 160 aircraft up for blast observation and cloud sampling. The word has been flashed to the Strategic Air Command so that planes in Seattle, Florida and overseas can take off on related atomic surveillance missions. His word has warned the Civil Aeronautics Administration to keep planes out of certain areas across the continent...
...condensers, coils, filaments and generators. There are safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision up to half a second before the zero second, but if all goes well, the current at last rams into the device, and a mushroom cloud stands miles high over the concrete bunker where Dr. Graves gave the word...
...years [March 21]". While I am considerably short of 30 years in high-school service, I have inhaled a great deal of that insidious white stuff which produces "the secret decay." (Laymen may not know that some times after a concussion of erasers on the blackboard, the familiar mushroom cloud of dust rises high in the air and results in heavy fallout many feet from the point of origin.) After a long hard look in the mirror, it seemed obvious at first that I had it. What else could account for the receding hairline, the dewlap under the chin...
...undisclosed depth. When it exploded, it gave little light, heat or blast, but it raised into the air a many-fingered fountain of dirt or shattered rock. Most of this material was so heavy that it fell back immediately, spreading radioactivity for a considerable distance. A radioactive dust cloud hung in the air for 3½ hours, but did not move far from the crater...