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Coined by Norman Mailer in 1973 in his book Marilyn. The use of this word appears to be anachronistic.
in November, Truman tested Ivy Mike, the first H-bomb, vaporizing the entire island of Elugelab, and blowing radioactive coral out of the water that fell on ships over thirty miles away from ground zero.
the Russians tested the Sloika, and Robert’s position against testing more H-bombs started seeming weaker and weaker.
the Society for Ethical Culture, which advertised itself as a modern replacement for ancient religions. The society took a stand, Robert told me, against any spirit of exclusion, or any impulse toward segregation.
That’s where the name Chester came from: it was the code name the NKVD gave him.
Tsar Bomba, in 1961, the biggest bomb ever exploded, with a mushroom cloud seven times the height of Mount Everest, which destroyed all the buildings in a village thirty-four miles away from ground zero, could have caused third-degree burns sixty-two miles away, and shattered windows in Norway and Finland.
