by we, i mean in the main control bunker there was just titterton and myself. we did have a technician. his name was calvin benton. , who helped out hauling things around, putting things together. the other, the fourth member of the team was rough flowery -- russ loughery. and his prime concern was the apparatus that we used to measure the simultaneity of which all the detonators were fired on the bomb itself. there were 32 of them, and it was our job to measure the degree of simultaneity of those detonators firing. that was where my previous experience had come in. russ was in charge of the recording of that data, done in a bunker half a mile west of the tower. so we had to pull in all of the apparatus to make those measurements. got all that stuff ready, running cables up to the tower, up to the bomb, to carry signals back to the recording apparatus. that was the secondary measurement that group of just including the technician, that is what we were doing at the bomb test. actually, it was two or three days after the test when lowry made a very quick trip int

titterton suggested maybe if i wanted to go out and take a look at what was going on, go ahead, because he could not do anything about it. and went outside the bunker around to the east side. there were two or three others -- who went out. left the bunker and went out to get a good view. of course, i had this glass to cover my eyes with. which i also kept as a memento of the occasion. on the groundut with the glass over my eyes. of course, initially, i was looking away from the tower. that enormous flash of light, of course, just over -- overcame any lack of transparency. it is just, it is the most surprising thing of all. a fantastic flash of light. then, of course, you see the ball slowlynd the rising off the ground. this mushroom cloud eventually. so i got up to, got up off the ground to get a better view. totally forgetting that the shockwave had yet to arrive. might -- only 30 microseconds for the light to arrive but it takes 30 seconds for the shock way to arrive -- shock wave to arrive. i had plenty of time to get back thaton the ground and hear fierce rumble. first that blast, a