The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview

The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued

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British Mandate for Palestine. The 191 dead were made up of 28 British nationals, 141 Palestinian Arabs, 17 Haredi Jewish dissident residents, and five hotel guests from other nations. Members of Irgun had smuggled the bomb material into the hotel in seven milk cans, and claimed later that they had telephoned a warning which had been ignored by the Chief Secretary, Sir John Shaw. When asked for comment Shaw said; ‘Yeah, right. You still believe the Jews?’

Andrei Gromyko told a closed session of the United Nations Security Council that the Soviet Union would not accept the Bernard Baruch Plan to ban all further production of nuclear weapons. Neither did the US, but that is only reported in Russian newspapers.

In the first underwater test of the atomic bomb, the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was sunk near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. The ‘Baker Test’ blast took place at 8:35 AM local time, and vaporized the 200 foot long weapons ship USS LSM-60, located directly above the bomb, and immediately sank the USS Arkansas. In all, three submarines and seven ships were destroyed in the test. The test was the second phase of Truman’s ‘Operation Crossroads,’ the number of phases yet to become disclosed. When asked if there was more destruction here than at Pearl Harbor,