Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth atom bomb blast at Frenchman's Flat, Nev. was the biggest of the series. It lit up the sky brightly at San Diego, 300 miles away. At Los Angeles, 250 miles away, the light was strong enough before dawn to take a dramatic picture (see below). Earth tremors shook Las Vegas (about 70 miles away), where the air blast broke a plate-glass window in Marjer's department store...
Tonight's is the first such broadcast sponsored by the Committee, which is composed of 33 leading educators and professional men. Later on, Vanuevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and also a member of the Committee, will speak on "The Atom Bomb and the Defense of the Free World...
...this is the weakness of Seven Days to Noon. But the coin has its reverse side. Perhaps because the story lacked the tension one would normally expect of a story about an atom bomb, the good brothers Boulting were obliged to introduce a whole new element into their thriller. The scientist is not chased through sewers by the cops, there are no wild car chases; instead the camera follows him as he wanders mousily around the city trying to evade the police and pass the time safely until he is due to carry out his threat...
TIME [Dec. 18] was wrong in its reference to the Denver Post editorial on the atom bomb. The Post did not say "Pope Innocent III had banned the crossbow in the 16th Century," as TIME erroneously paraphrased it. Unlike TIME researchers, Post editors know that Innocent III died in 1216. Post editorial said: "In the time of the Crusades, Pope Innocent III banned the crossbow as an inhumane weapon for Christians to be killing other Christians with. In the 16th Century the French complained that the British used the inhumane weapon known as gunpowder...
...bombed nearly everything in North Korea worthy of their attention, spoke the tough hangar talk of an airman. He was talking of capabilities, not of intentions. But those who were concerned with the Larger Picture were horrified at the possible suggestion that the U.S. might drop atom bombs on China. For his tough hangar talk, O'Donnell was duly slapped down by the Air Force's boss, General Hoyt Vandenberg, then went back to his proud job-command of the Fifteenth Air Force (long-range bombers) at March Air Force Base, Calif...