The atomic bomb dropped at Bikini was not the clap of doom, but it was an ominous sample. Because it sank only a handful of ships, around the world there were some who scoffed at it. But military men saw a point that few laymen seemed to consider: in war a power with mastery of the atom would no more attack a prime enemy target with one bomb than a machine-gunner would go into battle with one round in his magazine.
As scientists and military observers crawled up & down the blackened sides...
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