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On Tinian, Twilight Of the Nuclear Dawn
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The runways are silent now at this World War II base on Tinian.
The crumbling tarmac in many places has given way to lush tropical
vegetation.
Where bombers once rumbled, lizards now doze in the sun. A few
white-painted markers with plaques are the only reminders that this
was once the largest military air base in the world - and that this
placid isle is forever bound with the horrors of war and the dawn of
the nuclear age.
For it was here, in the late afternoon of Aug. 5, 1945, that a
four-ton atomic bomb code-named "Little Boy" was winched into the
belly of the Enola Gay, a B-29 ...
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Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
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Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...old puzzle The idea that the Milky Way was affected by unseen matter first appeared in 1932, when Dutch astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort proposed it to explain what appeared to him to be unusual motions among stars in the galaxy's disk. A year later...
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