Word: a-bomb
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...even from McKellar's partisan point of view, a case of political myopia. By attempting to institute the spoils system in atomic control, the former Senate President Pro Tem is dividing the few remaining Democrats, and rapidly convincing a worldful of people that American statesmen are still juggling the A-bomb in a Congressional circus...
...really advanced physicists, nuclear fission is old, dull stuff. What excites them now is "ultra-nucleonics," study of "the elementary particles within the atom which are capable of releasing thousands of times as much energy as is produced by the nuclear fission on which the A-bomb is based." To these men, trained in the esoteric mysteries of quantum mechanics, all matter is merely condensed energy. It is formed by the interaction of waves, and to waves it can return. What a triumph it would be, they speculate, to turn matter all at once into waves of energy...
President Conant, who shares billing with such notables as Albert Einstein and Major General Leslie R. Groves to reenact the evolution of the A-bomb, is co-starred with Vannevar Bush in a scene filmed in a Cambridge garage and portraying the first explosion of the bomb...
Permit me to 1) express my gratification for your piece on Mary McLeod Bethune (TIME, July 22) and 2) slip TIME a detonating A-bomb for using the term "Negress" which made my brown face take on a reddish...
...When the bomb actually did fall, the reporter hustled off to make sure that his first story had not been sent. The A-bomb blast had not even been felt aboard ship...