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The Northwest Territories/December 7, 0433 Hours |
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I asked our scientific program director why the most primitive and simple variant had been chosen. He explained that it was essential to demonstrate as soon as possible that we had a bomb; besides, we knew the size of the hatch of the Boeing that had dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Our device could easily go through that hatch.
When the first successful test was carried out, everyone cheered up no end; people were embracing everyone around them, even Beria. . . . It was Beria's creation, made and serviced by thousands of slave convicts. . . . In the final analysis the project itself was designed to cause untold destruction. MATHEMATICIAN PROFESSOR LEV ALTSCHULER IN LITERATURNAYA GAZETA |
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The emergency meeting in the admin tent was one of the few points of relative calm in the midst of the general chaos following the crash. It combined the characteristics of a wake |
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