Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ally." Chief witness against the Rosenbergs was Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, once an Army machinist at Los Alamos' Manhattan Project. In 1944, said David, his wife Ruth told him that the Rosenbergs wanted him to give them whatever information he could discover about the atom bomb, because "Russia is our ally and as such, deserves this information . . ." Greenglass testified that he repeatedly turned over top-secret data to the Rosenbergs...
...confessed: "I only embarked on it because I felt this was a contribution I could make to the safety of mankind." He refused to name his contacts. May, then 34, was tried in London in May 1946 and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was the first major atom spy to be convicted...
Above and Beyond (MGM) dramatizes the atom-bombing of Hiroshima...
...Operation Silverplate. The film shows Colonel Tibbets testing and perfecting the new 6-29 long-range bomber in 1943, assembling and training a group of Air Force experts at Wendover Field in the Utah desert during 1944, piloting the Enola Gay (named after his mother), which dropped the first atom bomb on Japan in August...
...picture touches only briefly on the moral aspects of the atom bomb...