Word: abomb
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...Yakovlev conveyed the commendation of his masters in Moscow for Greenglass' sketches: "Extremely excellent and very valuable." At the Rosenberg trial, a U.S, atomic expert, examining a duplicate sketch drawn by Greenglass, testified that it showed the atom bomb substantially as perfected. And he meant the improved wartime Abomb, the implosion type used at Nagasaki...
World War II had brought to near perfection two major techniques of modern war: the fast-moving, armored blitzkrieg, and strategic air bombardment, culminating in the Abomb. Korea saw both techniques disabled by physiography (mud and jagged hills) and politics (no bombs beyond the Yalu, a decision made in the U.S. in the summer of 1951). The result: a return to sitzkrieg, a mode of warfare that forced the mobile U.S. to fight on the enemy's terms. Thus it was that the most powerful nation in the world failed for the first time to win a war that...
...Britain's Abomb...
...various chemical warfare projects, and nuclear fission. Putting in some 250,000 miles of travel, bounded by Cambridge, Washington and Los Alamos, he deputized for Vannevar Bush, served as consultant for Major General Leslie Groves, was the No. I intermediary for scientists, generals and industrialists who helped fashion the Abomb. Since the war's end, he has spoken out forcefully for universal military training. Harvard this week announced Conant's retirement, effective Sept. 1, 1953> when he will become president emeritus. Until then, as High Commissioner, he will be on leave of absence...
...civilian court in peacetime imposed a death sentence for espionage, but then, never before has the peacetime U.S. had its security so jeopardized by one ring of spies (the Rosenbergs, Harry Gold, Klaus Fuchs), whose work probably shortened by years the Russians' efforts to build their own Abomb...