Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republicans propose to remedy the situation? Said Taft: There is only one safe policy, to which all other policies must be incidental -"the building of an Air Force sufficiently large to control the air over this country, over the oceans which surround this continent, and able to deliver atom, bombs on Russian cities and manufacturing plants...
...ploy usually works since audiences enjoy melodrama. Change the century's villain from a landlord to the communists, the hero from a farm boy to the F.B.I., the issue from this month's rent to atom bomb secrets, and a skillful director can guide unknown actors toward familiar outcomes to the satisfaction of everyone involved. Jerry Hooper is one skillful director...
...plot in which enemy agents conspire to blow up England's strategic power plants. The picture is a solo effort of Britain's talented Director Roy Boulting, who, with his twin brother John, made the taut 1950 thriller Seven Days to Noon, about a demented atom scientist's attempt to destroy London...
Died. Howard W. Blakeslee, 72, Pulitzer Prizewinning science editor (since 1928) of the Associated Press; ten days after he covered the atom bomb test at Yucca Flat, Nev.; of a coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington...
...Bush, who was boss of all U.S. Government scientists during World Wrar II, traces the evolution of scientific combat through two world wars. Radar, sonar, proximity fuses, guided missiles and atomic bombs, he points out, have almost overnight made modern warfare incalculably more swift and destructive than ever before. Even more awesome weapons are imminent: atomic rockets guided by television and atom missiles launched from submarines...