Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawkins told the committee that he is not now a Communist. He said he quit in 1943, about two months before he went to work at the Los Alamos atom bomb project...
Prince Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "Maybe the entire universe . . . from atom to spiral nebulae, is nothing but a tiny speck of a much vaster reality...
...situation is the same for humans as present evidence indicates a soldier irradiated from the blast of an atom bomb or artillery shall, or contaminated by the radioactive dust scattered by the blast, would panic or "freeze" in a fearful battle-ground situation...
...Stubby" Cole, the new Mr. Atom of Congress, was born at Painted Post, N.Y. (pop. 2,405) 49 years ago this month. He made Phi Beta Kappa at Colgate (class of '25), taught school for a year, graduated from the Albany Law School of Union University in 1929, began practicing in Bath, N.Y. He was elected to Congress...
...biggest hopes for multimillion Government orders, had been turned down by the Air Force in favor of Boeing's B-52 (TIME, Aug. 4). But Hopkins was making a calculated gamble on a longer-range future. Convair has the Government contract to develop an aircraft driven by atomic propulsion. Since Hopkins' own company already has the Navy's contract to build its two atomic submarines, the merger, in effect, made Hopkins the "Mr. Atom" of U.S. industry...