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...much as any other one man. Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who bossed the Los Alamos project during World War II, created the atomic bomb. For the past several months, Oppenheimer has been the nucleus of a top-secret political Abomb. This week the New York Times -on information provided by Oppenheimer himself-broke the news. On Dec. 23, 1953, the Atomic Energy Commission suspended J. Robert Oppenheimer as a security risk...
...will spend $10 million in Europe by 1957 to help NATO planemakers develop a lightweight jet fighter-bomber, small enough to operate from short airstrips close to the lines, yet big enough to carry a tactical Abomb. The three most likely candidates: Britain's Folland "Gnat" (TIME, Aug. 3), a new delta-wing jet designed by A. V. Roe & Co., and a light French plane, the "Baroudeur," that can reportedly nudge the speed of sound...
...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...
...kiteflying husband in Somerset Maugham's Quartet) is a sanitation engineer who has been designing the men's rooms at a British atomic-research center. Bound for a French vacation, he innocently walks off with the wrong briefcase, containing top-secret plans of a new Abomb. With England in an uproar and security officers searching everywhere for him, Potts is waylaid by Russian agents, plied with vodka, and whisked off to Moscow for what he thinks is a job of applying badly needed improvements to Soviet plumbing...
...Deputy for Air Forces in Europe; in his new role, he will be responsible for organizing, training and deploying all NATO's air forces from Iceland to Turkey so that they can be brought to bear-probably with atom bombs-on any part of Europe (because of the Abomb, an American has to have this job). For two years Norstad was SHAPE'S leading atom-warfare expert...