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H-bomb Tests
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The sky momentarily light* with the brilliance at a hundred sun*, and then, within seconds, returns to the more subdued hues of a tropical dawn. Another Hydrogen bomb test More specifically. Operation Redwing, Cherokee shot
• • • AS THE PYROTECHNICS die away, there begins the real work of checking instruments, analyzing data, comparing Cherokee with former tests. Scientists in concrete bunkers only 20 miles from Ground Zero quickly begin to read their instruments. Planes, ships and rockets check the intensity of radioactive fallout and other effects of the blast
Aboard a ship, the U8S Mi.
McKinley, abort 37 mtleo
from the blast a party of
Federal Civil Defease Administration
observers remove
their dark goggles. They, and
others like them, mast patiently
wnlt for the scientists.
But they know that when the scientists have toted up the score, it will fall to them to refine existing techniques of population evacuation and shelter— perhaps devise new ones — to assure survival of the greatest number of persons if some day an American sky lights up like a hubdred suns.
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