“Our first feeling was one of elation,” Weisskopf remembers, “then we realized we were tired, and then we were worried.”2460 Rabi elaborates: Naturally, we were very jubilant over the outcome of the experiment. While this tremendous ball of flame was there before us, and we watched it, and it rolled along, it became in time diffused with the clouds. . . .2461 Then it was washed out with the wind. We turned to one another and offered congratulations, for the first few minutes. Then, there was a chill, which was not the morning cold; it was a chill that came to one when one thought, as for
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