With that age-old feminine talent for ferreting out secrets, mothers, wives and girl friends orbiting around the U.S. Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. got the word one day last week that it was testing time for another big one. All week explosions had been going off all over the world—the U.S. A-bomb tests in Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific—and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile?...
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