Sentence examples for atomic bomb tests from inspiring English sources

The first nickname was Operation Crossroads, for the 1946 atomic bomb tests conducted on Bikini Atoll.

The piece even flirts with the images of the atomic bomb tests, which in their formal language are very similar.

Some people blame the rain on atomic bomb tests, but local representatives of the Atomic Energy Commission assure us that there is no connection bet. the 2. The Weather Bureau agrees with the A.E.C. on weather and atomic bomb tests.

But atmospheric atomic bomb tests, which ended in 1963, released vast amounts of radioactive carbon-14 into the air.

He later served on the USS Ajax, which took part in the atomic bomb tests in Bikini Atoll.

(The atomic bomb tests in Nevada are tangentially included, presumably as another symbol of dangerous Yankee overreaching).

Jones staggers away and, still pursued, arrives in a model town at the Nevada Test Site, minutes before an atomic bomb test, and takes shelter in a lead-lined refrigerator.

The first atomic bomb test, near Alamogordo, N.M., July 16 , 1945

The famous "first atomic bomb" tested at Alamogordo, NM, by contrast, was a plutonium bomb.

The New Yorker, March 9, 1946 P. 17 Comment on the Navy's contemplated atomic bomb test on Bikini Island.

In 1946, he helped make wave measurements at the atomic bomb test site at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.