Word: atomic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...failure of nerve and not of policy. The Labor left wing is also antiMarket in order to retain Brit ain's unilateral capacity to act; it is the left's impression that Britain is still morally powerful enough to sway world opinion, particularly by giving up the atom bomb to shame everybody else into disarming. When Laborite Roy Jenkins forcefully argued that Britain ought to go into the Common Market to end the division of Europe that has spawned three wars in the last 100 years, he was interrupted by both camps, but refused to be shouted down...
...Robert added an n to the name the brothers assumed after moving to the U.S. Born Sobolevicius, they are not related to Morton Sobell, who was convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the 1951 atom spy case...
...thermonuclear reactions from which the sun and the stars get their energy. When war started, he was soon in the thick of the scientific battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire lasted a little longer, the bomb that Bethe helped build at Los Alamos might well have blown his homeland apart...
...prime supplier of maps and data that guided Allied bombers and invaders. U.S. agents broke a Japanese naval code in the library, using the only available copy of an old Mexico City directory. The library had much of the data needed for the Manhattan atom-bomb project...