Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...into the atom business quick, Atomic Energy Commissioner T. Keith Glennan told private industry last week. Otherwise, growth of the Government monopoly in the atomic field may prove to be "the first step in the extension of governmental control over our basic industries." Unless private industry "gets in on the ground floor," Glennan told the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a golden opportunity for future industrial uses of atomic energy will be lost. "What I would like to see is more industries knocking at our door and asking, 'What's in this...
...Polynesian culture; in Honolulu. Born to an Irish father who married a Maori tribal princess, Buck led the hard-fighting Maori troops in World War I. He wrote about Polynesians in Vikings of the Sunrise, helped the U.S. Navy resettle Polynesians who left Bikini to make way for the atom bomb tests...
Prime Minister Churchill, who likes to be prepared, asked the House of Commons to re-establish the Home Guard. His reasoning: as the U.S. Air Force's principal overseas atom-bomber base, Britain might one day be the target of massive Russian paratroop attacks. Churchill's government proposed to recruit 125,000 unpaid, part-time volunteers as the nucleus of a force which could be expanded in wartime to 900,000 men. Their duties: to protect arms factories, airfields and fuel plants against saboteurs and parachutists. Each man would be issued a steel helmet and either a rifle...
...Washington's fusty old State Department building, representatives of industry, labor and local governments met last week to hear how industry should protect itself against the atom bomb. What they heard was hardly worth the trip...
...Sharers of the chemistry prize were the University of California's Edwin M. McMillan and Glenn T. Seaborg. Both were leaders of teams that synthesized the "transuranian elements," i.e., elements heavier than uranium (atomic number 92). First made was neptunium (No. 93), which McMillan named after the planet just outside Uranus. Neptunium turns spontaneously into plutonium (No. 94), used in atom bombs. The other transuranian elements, also produced for the first time at Berkeley: americium (No. 95), curium (No. 96), berkelium (No. 97) and californium...