Word: a-bomb
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...world that was surprised as much as it was dismayed (see THE WORLD). Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Soviet Union would resume test ing its nuclear weapons, boasted of a superbomb that had the force of 100 million tons of TNT-5,000 times the size of the A-bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and five times the size of the biggest bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Two days later, the testing began with a medium-sized bomb explosion in Central Asia. Thus ended a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...gesture of naive enthusiasm; state department and military officials doubted its feasibility, and had little interest in it except as a possibly useful piece of propaganda. The plan never had a chance; distrustful Russian military leaders certainly would not allow the U.S. to retain possession of the secrets of A-bomb production while stifling Soviet research through the mechanism of a West-dominated...
...McElroy, that "we have obtained statistics showing that 67.3% of U.S.A.F. personnel are psychoneurotic, involved in sexual ercesses, drug taking . . ." A quick follow-up came from the Soviet embassy in London in the form of a letter purporting to be from a U.S.A.F. pilot who threatened to drop an A-bomb in the North Sea in order to awaken Britain to the dangers of having atom-armed U.S. planes patrolling in British skies. Despite quick exposure for what they were, the forgeries nonetheless created in some minds a picture of the U.S. as irresponsibly indifferent to the safety...
...North Carolina and Alabama in search of folk songs with famed Collectors John and Alan Lomax. He is also an experienced, politically adroit Government adviser on scientific matters, with a staggering list of credits: he directed development of an early-warning radar system, planned the instrumentation for the Bikini A-bomb test, helped develop the Distant Early Warning radar line and the SAGE communications system. As professor of electrical engineering at M.I.T. and director of its Research Laboratory of Electronics, Wiesner is both an administrator and a theorist...
...blood between two old men, Harry Truman, 76, and General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 80, came to a boil again. On a TV chitchat program in Chicago, Truman was asked point-blank if he had ever been pressured to use the A-bomb during the Korean fighting. Taking dead aim at the general, whom he removed from his Korean-war command in 1951, Truman replied: "Yes, MacArthur wanted to do that ... He wanted to bomb China and Eastern Russia and everything else." Last week came a counter-volley from MacArthur. "Completely false [and] fantastic." said he. "Atom bombing...