Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS will provide some 23% of the world's electricity by 1980, predicts Samuel Untermeyer II, General Electric Co. reactor expert. Atomic power projects are increasing so fast that a recent $200 million Government program for peacetime industrial development of the atom by private companies "has been dwarfed before it is well under...
...truth. "Dillon Anderson saw the President for 15 minutes today," he said, "and you can take it from me that what they talked about was not pasteurized. It was top-secret security material. Nothing is being held back from him. If there was an emergency on Formosa, or an atom bomb was dropped, we'd tell him. We wouldn't barge right in and toss the news in his face, but we'd tell...
Britain had promised to double its contribution (to nearly $20 million). Hollister had news even more pleasing to the Asian ear. Proposing that the Colombo powers set up an atomic energy research and training center, he announced that the U.S. is ready to give a nuclear research reactor and, later, a nuclear power reactor. Said one Asian delegate: "For more than a decade, Asians have looked to the atom as a symbol of terror. Now, perhaps, it may become for us a symbol of hope...
...look at the 1945 Charter. The entrance of the General Assembly into the middle of the Moroccan dispute, for example, has raised a basic question about the extent of the U.N.'s power in colonial problems. In other areas, too, such as disarmament and the peaceful uses of the atom, the U.N. is just not sure how far it should go. In short, the world organization has reached a crossroads, and only a review of the Charter can indicate the proper direction...
...Manhattan, 24 other young Japanese women were waiting their turn to undergo plastic surgery, some for the second or third time. They all had one thing in common: ten years ago they were on the streets of Hiroshima within a mile of ground zero on the day the first atom bomb was dropped...