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Monday." He said, "We'll take care of that." So I said, "I'll have to ask my wife, 

 and I'll come back this afternoon." So I talked with her and she agreed to go. I 

 went back and told him I'd take the job, and he said, "Good, we've got the plane 

 standing by. You'll leave for Los Alamos at 4 o'clock." I had luck and we were 

 socked in by fog until the next day. Things were moving very fast, and I was out 

 in the Marshall Islands for most of 1946. I was Technical Director of the first 

 atomic bomb test out there. 



