World of Hurt Chapter 14
by Richard J Pietschmann
You really need to read this....
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Charleston: January 28, 1951
What Lieutenant Colonel Tibbetts did not say, and what almost no one knew at the time, was that in mid-1943 Wendover had been designated Site K of the Manhattan Project and code-named “Kingman.” It was located in the largest bombing and gunnery range in the country, bigger even than the huge one north of Las Vegas. “Silverplate” B-29s modified for use as atomic bombers would be based there and the crews that flew them trained there. The 509th was created entirely for atomic warfare.
Only when he had counted again to
five did he cautiously peek through the black lenses at the surging fireball
rising over Frenchman Flat. The roiling atomic furnace faded gradually to a
fierce rosy glow that pulsed with energy. A sharp cracking rumble hurt his ears
and echoed in the valley below. The shock wave hit then, spanking the ground
with a rough shove, followed by an almost equally violent second shock. The
fireball transformed again into the brilliant blue-purple luminescence of a
burning sun. A strong gust of wind whistled, nearly snatching the tarp from him,
breaking free tree branches and raining down pine cones. A murky mushroom head
shot through with crackling fire supported atop a thin column like a nuclear
tornado raced past his eye level and sped for the heavens.
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