BOMBS AT BIKINI 



coded telegram to the Maiiliattaii Engineer District's 

 office in the New War Department Building, in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. ; here the question would be decoded — 

 perhaps in somewhat puzzling form — and forwarded, 

 say, to representatives of the Chief of Naval Opera- 

 tions in the Navy Building. Here a definite reply 

 might be delayed until a civilian adviser located at 

 Princeton, N. J., had been consulted. By the time the 

 Princeton expert had been brought to Washington, 

 some of the Washington men might have been called to 

 Roswell Field, New Mexico, where the B-29's were 

 being readied. By the time the answer was ready, the 

 spotlight of interest might have shifted ; a whole new 

 set of questions might have taken the center of the 

 stage. 



Thanks to cooperative spirit, the telephone, the air- 

 plane, and high priorities, the problems were solved. 

 The way was cleared for detailed planning. 



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