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Real Estate
Now that the Clinton Administration is preparing to build a Star Wars missile shield, some entrepreneurs are sniffing at the scent of new money (beyond the $60...
THE MARSHALL ISLANDS: Fortuitous Fallout
"It looked like salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954...
Foreign News: Again, Yellow Peril
William Randolph Hearst, in whose fertile mind the stern duties of a patriot and the hot desires of a journalist are constantly interbreeding, raised his head...
THE ATOM: Polite Complaint
Politely, the leading citizens of the Marshall Islands began their petition to the United Nations with a bow: "We have found the American administration [of...
Army & Navy: No More Fun
On the beach of Eniwetok, one of the Marshall Islands, where U.S. troops fought and died a few months ago, now stands a Navy officers' mess, in front of it a...
Medicine: Capsules, Oct. 10, 1955
ΒΆ A medical team from the Naval Medical Research Institute and the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory reported on the radioactive fallout that occurred over...
THE ADMINISTRATION: Testing
The Atomic Energy Commission announced this week that it had picked shell-blasted Eniwetok atoll, just west of Bikini in the Marshall Islands chain, as its...
ARMED FORCES: Now There Are Three
Something new has been added to the U.S. atomic arsenal. This week the White House gave out a sketchy, cautious report by the Atomic Energy Commission on its...
POSTWAR: We All Agree
From the Marshall Islands, which have been held successively by Spain, Germany and Japan, came two solemn petitions. One, bearing signatures or fingerprints...
FOREIGN RELATIONS: Congress & Beyond
In his 23 years in the House of Representatives, New York's Republican Representative W. Sterling ("Stub") Cole, 53, did his best work on committee...
Photo Essays
Anatomy of an A-Bomb Test, 1946
In July 1946, the United States conducted two atomic tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. The tests, codenamed Able (an atmospheric explosion) and Baker...
