Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hint. Three days later, a Pravda reporter got further details from Joe Stalin himself. Asked the reporter: "What is your opinion of the hubbub raised recently in the foreign press in connection with the test of an atom bomb in the Soviet Union?" Replied Stalin: "Indeed, one of the types of atom bombs was recently tested in our country. Tests of atom bombs of different calibers will be conducted in the future as well." He repeated the Communist propaganda line that the Soviet Union stands for outlawing atomic bombs. Most Russians do not know that the U.S.S.R. has wrecked...
Last week Columbia University told about its meson beams, a powerful new tool that the physicists are using to explore the atom's sub-basement of mystery. Columbia's monster cyclotron starts with protons (positively charged nuclear particles), and whirls them around in a spiral path in a vacuum chamber 14 ft. in diameter. When they reach the outside spiral, they are moving at 140,000 miles per second (more than, seven-tenths of the speed of light), and carry 385 million electron volts of energy. At the peak of their speed and power, the protons...
...idea of cut-rate atomic defense has revived in recent weeks with talk of "fantastic weapons"-bomb-bearing missiles, atomic subs and planes. The talk is of an atomic Army, Navy and Air Force, small teams of specialists who can send an atom-laden rocket 10,000 miles at the push of a button. U.S. military men think such talk dangerously misleading. It will be years, perhaps decades, before the U.S. will have a satisfactory intercontinental rocket. Even then, no amount of atomic weapons can take the place of men with guns on the battlefield...
Last week the atom-powered dream plane was one step closer to reality; the Air Force announced that it had contracted with Consolidated Vultee for an airframe to carry a nuclear-reaction engine. The engine itself is already under development by General Electric...
...most of its deadly radiation unhindered into the air, will be dangerous on an airfield. When its reactor is running, all men in the vicinity will have to take cover, and the radioactive blasts roaring out of its tailpipes may poison the area permanently. To reduce these hazards, the atom-plane may have to take off with rockets, starting its nuclear engines only when safely up and away. In spite of such precautions it will not be a pleasant airport-mate. Once its reactors have run for a while, they will be radioactive even when shut down. If atom-planes...