Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Outlawing of the atom bomb in the Korean...
...moved in as president of Vanadium Corp. of America, reorganized its mining operations, and helped supply the uranium ore for the first atom bomb experiments. In World War II, Bransome went back to Washington as an industry representative in labor troubles, before the War Labor Board...
...Nevada bomb tests makes guessing about them hazardous. One thing seems certain: that the bombs were of several types. More interesting to scientific guessers than the powerful final bomb were the earlier, weaker ones. An urgent project of the AEC has long been the development of a "tactical" atom bomb small enough and cheap enough to be used in considerable numbers against enemy troops...
...atom bomb should hit a big U.S. city, the lives of more than 100,000 injured might be saved by prompt transfusions of blood, blood plasma or proper plasma substitutes. Under present conditions, nearly all these people would die. There is not enough blood, plasma or substitutes. Researchers are now looking frantically for acceptable and plentiful substitutes for plasma. Most injuries caused by atomic bombs (wounds, burns, radiation damage) result in loss of fluids from the blood vessels. The blood does not circulate properly, and the tissues, including the brain, do not get the oxygen and other supplies they need...
...plasma substitutes offer the danger of putting large amounts of foreign matter into the blood. If they damage some organ, the ill effects may not show up for years-so doctors like to be careful. Plasma substitutes would have to be used in case of an atom-bomb attack, but experts would prefer real plasma, or better yet, whole blood...