Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perhaps, because it was the only proposal he had heard which would permit the Administration to take a sizable cut out of the defense budget. Eventually, Wilson himself began to deride the Air Force goal of 143 wings as "unrealistic" and "unobtainable." Flying out to Omaha to inspect the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, he sat through a briefing by SAC Commander Curtis LeMay only to comment at the end of it: "I think 57 wings for SAC is too many." And three weeks ago, when Charlie Wilson's defense budget went to Congress, it was clear that...
...federal grand jury which indicted Atom Spies Julius Rosenberg and Morton Sobell called Perl in and asked him if he hadn't been palling around with them. He denied it. He denied it again last week in a New York federal court where he was tried for perjury. He repeated over & over, "I do not lie." But other witnesses testified that Perl and the spies (both of whom were his classmates at City College) had been seen together dozens of times and that he had frequently attended meetings of the Young Communist League with them in New York...
...achieve even 120 wings, the Air Force would have to skeletonize transport and tactical units and cut its long-range assault outfit, the atom-bomb-carrying Strategic Air Command, from 57 to 52 wings. It would also have to supplement current funds with "holdover" money appropriated during the Truman Administration. After 1956. the holdover Truman money will be gone. Then, unless its budget has been increased again in the meantime, the Air Force will have to trim down to 79 wings, about three-quarters of its present strength (103 wings...
...Philip Morrison, associate professor of physics at Cornell University, testified that he joined the Young Communist League at 19, moved into the party at 21, quit in 1940 when he was 25. In 1942, Morrison went to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb at Los Alamos, N. Mex. In 1945, he went to the Pacific to help ready the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombs. He said his break with Communism was clean, but he granted that only last month he had attended a meeting sponsored by the commie-lining American Peace Crusade in New York...
...Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...