Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...effort to whip up support in China, and the Communist countries which supply her armies, for a breakoff of truce talks at Panmunjom and a resumption of the war in Korea. tj Russia, now that it is itself making atom bombs (and thus can no longer accuse Western "warmongers" of being the only ones to make the dread weapon), had to create some other dastardly form of warfare which it could say was a Western monopoly. This is a British Foreign Office theory...
...First Lady. Amidst all these endeavors, she has also become an international figure of tremendous influence and prestige, both as the widow of Franklin Roosevelt and, increasingly, as a delegate to the U.N. To millions in the Western world, who react with uneasiness and doubt to the U.S. atom bomb and U.S. emphasis on material success, she is a symbol of hope, sanity and human dignity. Her earnest idealism, which many of her own countrymen sometimes find a little absurd, is eminently reassuring to great masses of people who are exposed to Communist cries of American warmongering...
...Junior High, and hopes to play football next fall. Two years ago, despite surgery and X rays, Norman was wasting away with a spreading cancer of the thyroid. Then his doctor got him into the little (30-bed) hospital at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which is set aside for atomic medicine. There, Norman had an "atomic cocktail"-radioactive sodium iodide dissolved in water. The cancer colonies soaked up the iodine; from each radioactive atom, beta particles and gamma rays shot out to destroy cancerous cells. Norman goes back to Oak Ridge regularly for checkups, and sometimes he gets another radioactive drink...
...Except for two squadrons of Canberra bombers, the R.A.F. Bomber Command is flying World War II aircraft. The Vickers Valiant, Britain's four-jet atom carrier, is not yet in production...
...ground swell is strong and deep: Adler, Hutchins & Co. are only part of it. The atom bomb, more than anything else, showed the U.S. that (in Adler's words) "the more science we have the more we are in need of wisdom to prevent its misuse." Reinhold Niebuhr expressed a growing uneasiness in the U.S. conscience over confused and slipshod morality. Arnold Toynbee found wide response when he attacked the easy optimism which regards history as an endless escalator to progress rather than a continuing struggle between good & evil. The Harvard report on U.S. education (TIME...