Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shipments of U.S. arms to Iraq, Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon, presumably to meet the needs of the crisis. C124 Globe-masters began trundling the first loads of recoilless antitank rifles from Greece and Libya to Jordan-nothing much to win a war with, but a fair symbol of the atom-packed Sixth Fleet that lay somewhere below the horizon offshore...
...Professor Bullen and a group of colleagues tried to persuade the U.S., Britain and Russia to explode at least one smallish atom bomb for scientific purposes during the International Geophysical Year (1957-58). The effort got nowhere, partly because of public revulsion against all nuclear explosions, but in 1956 the British and Australian governments gave in advance the time and place of four military test shots in Australia's central desert. Seismologists in many countries were all set for the waves, and they gained new information from their highly detailed records...
Samuel J. Novick, radar-parts manufacturer during World War II, reportedly sponsor of wartime Atom Spy Arthur Adams as an immigrant to the U.S. and backer of Communist causes and front organizations...
...Socialists themselves did not quite know. Erich Ollenhauer was flying about Germany in a rented, five-seater yellow Cessna, accompanied by his plump wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia was determined to keep Germany divided, thereby...
This is the situation as Author Nevil Shute (Pied Piper, The Breaking Wave) opens his 21st novel. To U.S. Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first...