May 12 1968

From The Space Library

At dedication ceremony attended by 19,000, USAF officially re­named Bunker Hill AFB, Indiana, Grissom AFB in honor of Astronaut Virgil I. Grissom who died Jan. 27, 1967, in Apollo fire. (NYT, 5/13/68)

Nearly fallout-free nuclear explosive appeared within U.S. grasp as re­sult of two AEC Plowshare nuclear excavation tests Jan. 26 and March 12 at Nevada test site. Small size of explosives used had confined fall­out within few hundred yards of craters, with radiation at source un­detectable after three days. (O'Toole, W Post, 5/12/68)

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