Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sent to find out for the Pictorial's 5,170,000 readers what the U.S. is really like. "It is horrifying," wrote Champion, who had set foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only...
...Johns Hopkins Science Review for the last four years has broadcast faculty lectures on everything from the atom to the psychology of fear.
Most important of the items which he admitted giving them was a sketch of the Nagasaki-type atom bomb, and a twelve-page report on how it worked...
David Greenglass, whose confession got his prison sentence down to 15 years, was backed up by the testimony of his wife Ruth. Convicted Spy Harry Gold told the court that, in May 1945, a Russian agent named Yakovlev had ordered him to go to Albuquerque to pick up some atom-bomb diagrams from Greenglass...
...years have British newsmen worked so hard on a story as they did last week when Britain's first atom spy, Dr. Alan Nunn May, was released from Wakefield prison (see FOREIGN NEWS). For 15 days outside the prison gates, more than 30 reporters stood a freezing round-the-clock watch, hired special radio-equipped cars, guarded every entrance and pounced on every lead for news of May's release. But for every step the newsmen took, the Home Office, which runs Britain's prisons, took a counterstep to thwart them. "It is undesirable," said the Home...