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Alone in a darkened room, an electronics technician pressed a microphone switch and began the countdown on Operation Dominic-the U.S. series of nuclear tests in the atmosphere that the free world did not want, but for its survival's sake could not avoid...
Loudspeakers carried the countdown across the claw-shaped coral atoll to scientists huddled in and around instrument-filled trenches. Radio carried it to some 40 ships and 100 aircraft of Joint Task Force 8 deployed over 6,000,000 sq. mi. of the Pacific. One of those aircraft, an Air Force B-52, sped at high altitude toward the island. In the operations center, Dominic's scientific director, William Elwood Ogle, wearing khaki shorts and a green aloha shirt, nodded to Joint Task Force 8's commander, Major General Alfred Dodd Starbird, a tough, tall...
...blunt sign reminds the pilot again of the noise-controlling turn. The reminder is unnecessary. He knows that the moment his wheels leave the ground he must transmit a report to a company sound truck stationed in line with the end of the runway, and he must start a countdown: "Five, four, three, two . . ." At the count of two, he will ease his thrust levers (throttles) back and reduce power; all four engines will slow to comparative quiet as he glides over the truck. Hopefully, he will not register too much noise on the recorders that the Port...
...impossible on one finger atop a light globe. Harold Alzana teeters through several near falls on his 40-ft. high wire. And the Zacchinis, their cannon now billed as "atomic," are launched in a flash of gun powder into a safety net and "recovered in time for the next countdown." Newest star is blonde Evelyn Currie, 20, who is appearing with Ringling Bros...
...liquids that can be stored for long periods at ordinary temperatures in the missile's own tanks, require no last-minute transfusions of rebellious, bubbly lox. "This was really noticeable at Canaveral," says Feldman. "With Titan I, we had to fiddle with the lox right down to the countdown, but this time there was nothing we could worry about for the last two days before the flight. You preload, and that's the end of it." Titan II, like the much smaller, solid-fuel Minuteman, will be placed in underground silos covered with a thick lid to resist...