small group huddled in the bunker all reached down and put on their protective goggles and braced themselves. Twenty seconds later the tower, the bomb, the strange package and the fog it had given birth to all vanished in the blinding glare of a terrible new dawn.
Not long after this event, two more of the Trinity devices were created and carried to their targets in that older weapon of mass destruction known as the four engine bomber.
They never did find out what the mysterious object in the desert had been. Whenever anyone tried to ask about it the subject was quickly changed. And very soon after anyone did, they were quickly called into the office of the military attaché, and given a stern warning never to discuss or question the matter ever again.
When the official story of the development of the first fission bomb came to be written, no mention of any mysterious balloon ever appeared.
And now the same thing had happened again.
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