Word: abomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven months the labor situation at the Government's vital Oak Ridge and Paducah atomic-energy plants had been as explosive as an Abomb. The C.I.O.'s Gas, Coke & Chemical Workers union wanted a raise in pay, angrily threatened a crippling strike to get it; Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., which runs the plants, turned down the demands. After a three-day strike last July, Labor Secretary James Mitchell and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther both pleaded for a settlement, but negotiations bogged down again; an 80-day injunction only postponed the inevitable showdown...
...Winning? In Hiroshima, Japan, meanwhile, Christianity made another comment on the Bomb-by dedi cating the handsome new Church of Our Lady of the Assumption on the site where the old one stood before it was destroyed nine years ago by the first ABomb. Jesuit Father Hugo Lassalle (who himself survived the bombing) built this World Peace Memorial Church with contributions from Japanese converts plus a $100,000 anonymous contribution from the U.S. In this new church, standing at the birthplace of the atomic age. Christians of all denominations might find a symbol. Various Christian assemblies last week gave...
...energy of a wholly different magnitude from any ever observed in atomic particles-more than 1,500,000 times the energy of the particles shot out by the University of California's powerful bevatron, and 50 million times the energy of a splitting uranium atom in an Abomb. The "something," Physicist Schein thought, was most probably an illusive particle called an antiproton (negative proton), which theoretical physicists have long guessed about, but never observed...
Douglas claims that the plane is the smallest and lightest jet combat plane ever built in the U.S. It has a 39-ft.-long fuselage and short, 25-ft., batlike wings, only half the spread of the Skyraider. But the plane has the range and bombload (including the Abomb) to match most World War II medium bombers. The engine is a Wright J-65 turbojet (7,200 Ibs. of thrust), and though its speed is a tightly guarded secret, experts say it can outrace Russia's latest-model MIG interceptors, make its way home without escort...
...contemporaries were already keenly aware of him as a genius of physics, the leader in the making of the Abomb. Less sharply, they understood that he was a leader in another sense, that he had become a symbol of a new mood among physicists (and many other scientists), a mood that alternated between their old self-confidence and profound new doubts. The Oppenheimer who symbolized this mood had become a power in the highest policy councils of the nation, partly because of the national dependence on him and the men for whom he stood, partly by the force...