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...passed before Army helicopters brought surprisingly chipper G.I.s from the trenches. Only two miles from Ground Zero, heat and light had passed over them as they crouched face down. The grey dust cloud they saw later, they were told was not dangerously radioactive. They had learned the lesson that atom bombs may spare careful soldiers who keep their distance and are well...
Democrat Symington recalled to his listeners the complacency fostered by the Truman Administration. In October 1949, the month after the Russians exploded their first atom bomb, the Truman Administration decided to cut U.S. armed strength. Even Chinese intervention in Korea, said Symington, "did not bring us to our senses . . . We were told that we could handle this new Soviet aggression with one hand, while we piled the other hand high with butter and automobiles and television sets...
Always on the alert for new fields, McGraw-Hill registered the title Atomic Power right after the first atom bomb, now publishes it as Nucleonics, which is still losing money. But the company has had to wait before for a new trade to catch up with its magazine, and Hack McGraw isn't worried. Said he: "It's another stake in the future. We think it will carry itself well when private industry really gets going in atomic energy...
...Atom Bomb Tests (Tues. 8 a.m., CBS, NBC, ABC). From Yucca Flat...
Morton Sobell, the atom spy who was convicted along with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (now in Sing Sing under death sentence), was transferred from the Atlanta penitentiary to serve his 30-year sentence in the "maximum security" of Alcatraz...