Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom bomb which fell from the Great Artiste at exactly 11:03 a.m. was far more powerful than that which had fallen on Hiroshima three days previously. Looking down on Nagasaki, Sergeant Raymond C. Gallagher of Chicago, wearing welder's goggles to protect his eyes, saw three "shock circles" rising through the boiling-up column of smoke, flame and dust. In that instant one-third of the city, including the Mitsubishi steel plant, had been destroyed. Engulfed in the explosion were 252,000 people, 36,000 of whom died, and 40,000 of whom were seriously injured...
...last Saturday, Aug. 9, the air-raid sirens wailed again in Nagasaki. In memory of the atom-bomb dead, Nagasaki citizens bowed their heads, closed their eyes, prayed. Temple bells rang, civic leaders spoke. That night thousands of small lanterns, each with a candle burning in it, floated down the river which runs through the center of Nagasaki. In Buddhist faith, each candle consoled a soul lost in the atom blast...
Died. Senator Brien McMahon, 48, congressional watchdog of the atomic energy program, who received 16 first ballot votes at the Democratic Convention as Connecticut's favorite son candidate for the presidency; of cancer; in Washington. A Yale Law School graduate (1927) and a protege of Connecticut's shrewd old Boss Homer Cummings, 88, he was appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General when he was 33, was first elected to the Senate in 1944. After the atom bomb was dropped over Hiroshima, he crusaded successfully for civilian control of the atomic energy program (now headed by his onetime law partner...
Flying Poison. But one implication of the test explosions is no secret. Atomic bombs set to explode underground are expected to play a big part in future warfare. Air bursts, as used over Japan, affect only the surface of the ground. As both sides burrow deeper, placing their vital installations deep in soil or rock, the atom bombs will go after them, sending rock waves to wreck them as no air waves...
Another military factor will be the vast amount of debris thrown out by an atom bomb that penetrates earth or heavy buildings. It will be highly radioactive, and chunks of it flying for miles will poison large areas. The Army engineers say they are not interested in the bits of rock that were thrown three miles by their scaled-down bomb. But atomic bombardiers will certainly take note...