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Lockheed Martin

Acquired

CHAPTER

The Importance of Finding a Safe Place to Test Nukes

Kelly Johnson is sort of like Sam Walton and his prop plane scouting out for Walmart locations, flying sideways. They find a dry lake bed in Nevada called Groom Lake. "It was a perfect natural landing field as smooth as a billiard table without anything being done to it"

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