Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington's first "atom-bomb-proof" building is nearing completion just five miles north of the White House. Surprisingly, it is neither an Air Defense Command center nor a refuge for the President and his staff,* but a new laboratory for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, designed to preserve the nation's vital file of military medical knowledge (e.g., 656,000 individual specimens, 6,000,000 pathological slides) and enable scientists to carry on their work despite atomic attack...
...including possibly the shape of the earth. But . . . she was still there . . . trying to defend her wicked ways . . . The officer had spotted her talking earnestly to a strange man on the street corner . . . With her run-over heels and tongue-tied soul [she] will be the only thing the atom bomb will never change or remove...
...Kind of H-Bomb. Of the many new experimental treatments for cancer described at the congress, the most promising was a "desexed" hormone used by Urologist Charles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago. He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with advanced breast cancer. The sexless hormones, Huggins hopes, can block the normal female hormones that stimulate breast cancer...
This was energy of a wholly different magnitude from any ever observed in atomic particles-more than 1,500,000 times the energy of the particles shot out by the University of California's powerful bevatron, and 50 million times the energy of a splitting uranium atom in an Abomb. The "something," Physicist Schein thought, was most probably an illusive particle called an antiproton (negative proton), which theoretical physicists have long guessed about, but never observed...
General Dornberger's book is an implied tribute to U.S. scientists and industrialists cooperating with their government. The brilliant engineers at Peenemünde did brilliant work, but the Nazi system achieved nothing like the harmony, purpose, coordination and effectiveness of the U.S. atom-bomb project...