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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