Trial Run May 7, 1945

Book Id: WPLBN0000703781
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 1.56 MB.
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	Trial Run May 7, 1945
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Energy, Energy and research series
Collections:	Department of Energy Collection
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Excerpt
Excerpt: Countdown; The air hung heavy over the Hill that summer. Rains failed to come and precipitation was half the normal amount. Temperatures rose to average four degrees above normal. Water became scarce and fires threatened, adding to the irritations and frustrations. Dorothy McKibbin, who ran the Santa Fe liaison office for the Los Alamos project, could discern the tightening of tensions on the Hill, but because of rigid security, she had only her intuition to tell her what was happening. AS many as 70 people checked into her office every day and one day she counted 100 phone calls. ?The voices on the telephone showed strain and tautness, and I sensed we were about to reach some kind of climax in the project,? she recalls