"Big moment?" he replied.
"Sure. Thirty years ago today—this moment."
"Yeah?" drawled Bronson. "And what happened?"
Peter Moray looked at John Cauldron. "Tell me," he snapped, "what kind of man could live to maturity and not know Alamogordo?"
"I don't know. I can't imagine," replied John Cauldron. "But maybe—just maybe—it is the answer we've been seeking."
Ed Bronson shook his head though he knew that the girl could not see him. He had not heard Moray or Cauldron mention Alamogordo. He repeated his query.
"And what happened?"
Virginia Carlson told him, "Thirty years ago, at Alamogordo, the scientists first released the energy from the atom."
"Oh," he replied. "I didn't know it was marked on the calendar as a holiday."