Word: a-bomb
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...Special reports. To date these have told you what the A-bomb does and the best defense against its effects, and how politics are heading into trouble in Indo-China, one of the five world areas most vulnerable to Communist attack. Future reports might fill you in on anything from where your tax money goes to how Russia's Fifth Column is going in Western Europe...
...soon as it became evident that the Government of the U.S. might vanish in one cloudy instant if an A-bomb landed in downtown Washington, the idea struck Government planners: Why not move the tempting targets and save the city? Last week President Truman asked Congress for $139,800,000 to begin a dispersal of key agencies...
Among the more cautious half of Cicero's townspeople, who were not demanding the use of the bomb-or at least not yet-were Postmaster A. T. McKnight and Banker Newton Wiles. They were willing, they said, to leave the A-bomb...
...said the FBI, who recruited his brother-in-law, David Greenglass, for the spy ring (TIME, June 26) when Green-glass was on furlough from his sergeant's duties at the Los Alamos A-bomb project. Rosenberg tore the top of a Jello box in half, gave a piece to Greenglass as his badge of identification and told him that his contact at Los Alamos would produce the other half. The contact turned out to be Spy Courier Harry Gold, the Philadelphia chemist, who got atomic-energy data from Greenglass and paid...
...most is civilian defense, partly because planners only began taking it seriously when they learned last September that the Russians had an Abomb. No one has even decided whether cities, states or Federal Government should pay for staffs and equipment. No city in the U.S. is ready for an A-bomb attack-though test programs are under way for Washington, D.C., Chicago and Seattle. Warned_Symington in Detroit last week...