Word: atomic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Atom. The U.S. signed a new agreement for the exchange of atomic energy information with Britain, thereby -among other things-cutting two years off the Royal Navy's five-year schedule for building an atomic submarine. The agreement will go into effect within 30 days unless the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy objects...
...Army and special assistant to Harry Truman on foreign aid (the "Gray Report"), first director of the U.S. Government's Psychological Strategy Board, head of the special security board of the AEC that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to the nation's top atom secrets, publisher; and Mrs. Nancy Maguire Beebe, 31; both for the second time; in Washington...
...magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones of continuing interservice clashes over roles and missions in the age of the missile and the atom (TIME, June 4). Among last week's sour notes...
Unthinkable War. Behind such pot-shooting lay the basis for a deadly serious war between the services. In the years since World War II, the growing potential of the atom has brought new importance to air power because air power is the prime delivery means for A-bombs and H-bombs. The atom knocked askew the comfortable old U.S. military idea of balanced forces. President Eisenhower wrenched the Air Force, Navy, Army roles and missions even more sharply by ruling that the atomic bomb should be the primary weapon both for retaliation in case...
...soljer," Burgess would drop those unwilling or unable to absorb atom-age training. Said he: "We have no place for the half-lazy, the half-talented in today's complex military structure...