Then a contra train of reflection seized him, and he whispered, as one suddenly confronted with an appalling calamity: “Ah, ah!
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice
The explosives were stacked on top of a 20-foot tower and contained tubes of radioactive solution to simulate, at a low level of activity, the radioactive products expected from a nuclear explosion.
— from Project Trinity, 1945-1946 by Carl R. Maag
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