Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow man, and also emphasize . . . that the fundamental virtues of charity and love of neighbor ... in this spiritually rudderless era still are a more powerful influence for world peace and unity than the strictly negative Hoover Plan or a revitalized Fortress Europe, or an all-out atom bomb attack on the hydra-headed monster of Communism...
Rosenberg asked him to write up anything he knew about the atomic project. Greenglass obliged and even added a sketch of a "lens mold" he was working on for use in the atom bomb itself. He drew a copy for the jury, and a Los Alamos scientist explained that these four-leaf-clover-shaped lenses were made of high explosives designed to focus detonation waves as an optical lens focuses light waves. This made an "implosion" rather than an explosion. The sketch, he said, was sufficient to show an expert "what was going on" at Los Alamos...
...David Bradley is a physician (not a physicist) who attended the Bikini atom-bomb tests in 1946 and wrote the atomic scare-book, No Place to Hide. Last week, more scared than ever, he told an audience at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn, that one of the recent atomic explosions in Nevada was 500 times more powerful than a conventional (or Model-T) Abomb. Therefore, reasoned Bradley, it must have been a hydrogen bomb. He based both premise and conclusion on the fact that the bomb broke windows in Las Vegas, nearly ten times farther from the explosion than...
...Atomic authorities are still baffled by Scientist-Spy Klaus Fuchs, who has been locked in his British prison for twelve months of his 14-year sentence. As a trusted insider in both U.S. and British atom-bomb laboratories, Fuchs had an enormous amount of secret and vital information. He insists that he transmitted his knowledge to the Russians. If he did, the secrets might as well be published openly, with benefit to all Western scientists...
...used Meet the Press for his first public statement of support of Eisenhower for President, and New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson seized his opportunity there to nominate Truman for a third term in 1952. General Bedell Smith, in 1949, said he was certain the Russians had the atom bomb, and Federal Civil Defense Administrator Millard Caldwell sobered viewers with an estimate of 500,000 casualties in the event of an atom attack on the U.S. Senator Taft used Meet the Press to add fuel to the Big Debate on arming Europe, and to urge that U.S. troops come...