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Word: atomic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atom-Shaped. The President in his last week's statement went on to say: "It is my hope, my earnest prayer, that this country will never again be engaged in war." This hope, which has a meaning of urgency new to Americans, rests in practice upon two pillars: 1) U.S. defense policy and 2) U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Trapeze | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...Lilienthal the situation is especially vivid. He remembers those nervous years after VJ Day when our friendship with Russia was cooling rapidly. At that time, the government was well-satisfied to entrust its defense to a cheap, and supposedly invincible, stockpile of atom bombs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The People and the A-Bomb | 10/16/1953 | See Source »

...Civil Defense assumption for the drill: two 50-kiloton atom bombs had exploded over lower Manhattan and outer Queens, killed 1,104,814 and injured 512,000, knocked out Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, disabled public utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Bombs for Everbody | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...spur atom-bomb protection for key industries, the Government will soon allow companies tax writeoffs on 100% of the cost of building bomb shelters and shoring up plant structures to withstand atom bombing. Slated for the first certificate: Cincinnati Milling Machine Co., biggest U.S. machine-tool builder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Rainbow (by Myron C. Fagan) was equally wooden and clumsy as the murdered-columnist whodunit it started off to be, and the anti-Communist-who-done-America-dirt it turned into. To keep the audience interested, it needed such allegations as that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the atom bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway Blunders | 9/28/1953 | See Source »

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