July 16, 1945: The countdown to the world's first atomic bomb test is underway. A local radio station's broadcast intrudes the wave length the Trinity site was using; the result an interspersing of numerical lessening with Tchaikovsky's Nutcraker Suite.
Hunner, Inventing Los Alamos, p. 68.
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