Word: holzman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
Normally, radioactive particles from the cloud should not reach the sea for two or three hours. But the bomb's hot gases, rising rapidly, might whip up a genuine thunderstorm. Then the particles would all fall much sooner, in a deluge of deadly rain. Colonel Holzman hopes to pick a day when conditions are poor for an atom-brewed thunderstorm...