Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also announced that he would set up an advisory body, composed of military and civilian scientific experts, to be known as the Weapons System Evaluation Group. This group would provide "unprejudiced and independent" evaluation of new weapons (e.g., improved atom bombs, rockets, etc.) and would advise on which service could best use them. Thus, it could get at the heart of the matter. It could, by defining the use of weapons, define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could...
Lilienthal, as part of a study on children's radio serials, had previously traded box-tops for such items as mystery rings, atom guns, and quiz master sets...
...promise that the U.S. would support Russia's bid for a "special position" in Manchuria: control of the South Manchurian Railroad, Dairen and Port Arthur. Told about this deal months later, Chiang Kai-shek reluctantly accepted. Further, when the Russians marched into Manchuria, three days after the atom bomb on Hiroshima, they disarmed the Japanese, then handed the arms to the Chinese Communists. Chiang was not surprised. Even when both he and the Reds were arrayed against the Japanese, Chiang used to say: "The Japanese are like a terrible skin disease; but Communism is a cancer...
Sensational writing has taken the place of factual reporting and has distorted the public's opinion of the atom, Barth continued. Donald Michael, of the Graduate School of Social Relations, gave statistics from his poll conducted a year ago in Chicago to determine what the public know about atomic energy. A majority believed no defense was possible and that another war would come within 25 years. A small minority thought negotiation would be successful...
Steinberg spoke on "The Public's Stake in New Medical Research," stressing the effect of the atom in the medical field...