Word: a-bomb
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...A-Bomb Prelim (Sun. 3, 6, 8, 11:15 p.m., all networks). CBS Correspondent Bill Downs, from an observation plane, covers the proceedings at Bikini...
...Army's A-bomb man, plush-bottomed, stuffy Major General Leslie R. Groves, announced that he wanted the reporters at Operation Crossroads "locked up on the press ship, taken out to a certain point, write what they can see of the explosion, and then send them back home." The Navy said it wanted the Bikini tests treated like "the story of the year, maybe of the decade, and possibly of a lifetime." By last week it was plain that the Navy (and the press...
...editorial in the Oak Leaf, the school paper, explained what they were up to: "We do not want to die a useless death. We cannot be indifferent. We are alarmed that this terrible menace has not been generally recognized. . . . Our fathers [mostly scientists or workers in the A-bomb development] have told us that the atom bomb can wreck the world, and we believe them...
Sharpest disagreement among Yak-Acs: whether the U.S. was justified in using the A-bomb on Japan. Most girls thought no; most boys...