It is totally amazing to me sometimes how congressmen and their staffers act when they get to Washington. As many writers have observered, it's like a virus begin spread from the capital building.
An atomic era historian, Alex Wellerstein, has gone to the Library of Congress to do research - you know, the old fashioned kind, where you read through books and boxes of papers. Historians seem to do that a lot. Being an expert on the atomic politics and such, he is looking into transcripts of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Here's one exchange between Senator Brien McMahon (D-Conn) and General James McCormack, discussing Operation Ranger, the first test series At the NTS in 1952. Somehow Amchitka, Alaska comes up as a site for a test, which didn't actually happen until 1965 (Operation Milrow).
(I had to look McMahon up in wiki to find out who he was. The editor at wiki who wrote that article was just a mite scathing about his subject.)
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An atomic era historian, Alex Wellerstein, has gone to the Library of Congress to do research - you know, the old fashioned kind, where you read through books and boxes of papers. Historians seem to do that a lot. Being an expert on the atomic politics and such, he is looking into transcripts of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Here's one exchange between Senator Brien McMahon (D-Conn) and General James McCormack, discussing Operation Ranger, the first test series At the NTS in 1952. Somehow Amchitka, Alaska comes up as a site for a test, which didn't actually happen until 1965 (Operation Milrow).
Quote:
Brien McMahon “… according to the staff’s report to me,… the Air Forces are going to do a test called Windstorm up in Kamchatka or Kiska or something.” Gen. McCormack: “Amchitka.” McMahon: “Kamchatka?” McCormack: “Amchitka. Kamchatka is over the border in Russia.” McMahon: “That wouldn’t be a bad idea.” |
(I had to look McMahon up in wiki to find out who he was. The editor at wiki who wrote that article was just a mite scathing about his subject.)
If you fancy critter humor (remember, the cold war has started and McCarthy isn't far away) you can see more at
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http://ift.tt/1fpx6Py
http://ift.tt/1fpx6PC
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