Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within hours after President Truman's first statement on possible use of the atom bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the press, public and politicians of all Europe suddenly awoke to the possibility that World War III might be upon them. In Britain the reaction was especially strong...
Young Republicans will meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop Junior Common Room to recommend universal military service and atom bomb policy for adoption by similar college clubs throughout the country...
...Harvard undergraduate is worrying about war. He is thinking about withdrawing from Korea; he is thinking about dropping an atom bomb; he is thinking about seating Communist China in the United Nations; and he is thinking about how the war affects...
...people to go to the Dominions. His argument, as expounded to the Council for a New Era of Emigration, is that mass emigration now would greatly strengthen the United Kingdom, especially if war should come. Britain's fundamental weakness, Airman Whittle believes, is its vulnerability through starvation if atom-bombed or blockaded. Declared Whittle of would-be emigrants: "They have felt they would be guilty of leaving a sinking ship, whereas the truth is that if they leave, the ship might not sink...
...amateur atom fans, a group of scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory offered last week a "continuous cloud chamber." Based on a ten-year-old but neglected idea, it is simple enough, say the Brookhaven men, to be built and operated by the teacher of a high-school science class...