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Volume V, Number 6
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Further remembrances
on the
‘incident
by Stewart Alsop
The neat day I was back in the same room I had occupied
more than a year before, when I had frst been admitted to
NILL Thad lobar pneumonia, and Johm Glick had hooked
me up to the familiar VY. Two bottles of antibiotics dripped
alternately into my veins. Tlus Ume, I had the privileged
bed beside the window, and the bed vear the door was oc-
cupicd by a muscular young man with brown skin, curly
black hair, and a huge grin.
His name was odd—
. He was, it turned out,
fiom the Marshall Islands. Ife had heen a one-vear-old
baby in igsg, wher we Americans tested our first dehwerable hyciogen bomb ow Bikini, one of the Marshalls,
As it happened, | hues a good deal about the Bikini
bomb. Wilk the help of Dr. Raljh Lapp, an atomic sctendist who usec tooret at oray mentor ie sich matters, T had
done «a lot of reporting on it. So had brother Joe. As a result,
Joe aud I were the fist to describe, in our joint column, the
phenomenon of nuclear talloul.
The Bikini bornb was much more powerful than Edward
Teller and the other scientists in charge had anticipated.
Moicover, it had an unanticipated effect. It churned up
sreat mounds of earth below the explosion point. Lhe earth
was turned into fight dust by the force af the explosion.
This heavily irradiated dust followed the wind patteras un‘st it fell ont of the skies. Some of it fel on the Lucky
Diagon, a Japanese trawler more than ninety miles from
the explosion point. The members of the crew all suffered
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