Word: a-bomb
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...world's greatest orator addressed himself this week to the world's most pressing problem. Somehow, it seemed appropriate that Sir Winston Churchill-born in the age of lance-bearing cavalrymen, a captain of two world wars, the statesman who first recognized the A-bomb as the free world's chief deterrent to Communist aggression-should recite the perils and promises of the thermonuclear...
...First, on the day before take-off from Upper Heyford, the three-man, crews went through a two-hour briefing session on what they were supposed to do. Then the "scopehead" (SAC slang for the bombardier-observer who runs the radar and is responsible for putting the A-bomb on target) of each crew withdrew to calculate- his course and study the radar pictures of his plane's target so he would be able to recognize the target by radar...
Navy's top A-bomb experts; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. A crack gunnery officer, he became chief of the Bureau of Ordnance during World War II, later led a naval bombardment group in the Pacific. In 1946, commanding Joint Task Force One (230 ships; 41,000 men; 1,000 scientists and technicians), Admiral Blandy smoothly directed the first postwar A-bomb tests at Bikini. Retiring as head of the Atlantic Fleet in 1950, he was recalled to active duty last October, when death came was busy evaluating the Navy's Reserve program...
Died. Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex. (1945), three weeks later rode over Japan in the bomb bay of the B-29 Enola Gay to trigger the second Abomb, minutes before it was dropped on Hiroshima...
...public be willing to pay for the costly defense measures the scientists might devise? Yes. said Lapp, if the Administration would tell the people the hair-raising facts-such facts as that it is now entirely feasible to make a thermonuclear bomb 500 times as powerful as the A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki...