Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...
...FIRST ATOM POWER PLANT in U.S. using natural uranium as fuel, instead of more expensive uranium enriched with U-235, will be built near Tampa by three Florida utilities. Florida Nuclear Power Group is expected to get AEC subsidy for $40 million plant that will have capacity of 136,000 kw. when it is finished...
...m.p.h. B-52. Last week Boeing won a $7,109,195 Air Force production contract-and the promise of more-for a new aircraft calculated to give any bomber crewman the shakes. The craft: Boeing's deadly Bomarc guided missile, whose mission is to knock down atom-bomb-carrying planes like Boeing...
...answer is the atom-which, declared France's Louis Armand, one of the three, "will change our way of life just as much as the introduction of the potato." Noting that Britain has already launched a nuclear-energy program which by the end of 1965 will be producing roughly a quarter of Britain's electricity, the three experts said that the Euratom countries must do likewise. Since their population is three times Britain's, their target must be substantially greater. They called for 15 million kw. of nuclear electricity...
...Security Storm. Herbert Brownell became acquainted with this loneliness in his first days as Attorney General. When Dwight Eisenhower took office, he found on his desk the plea for clemency of Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Brownell recommended against clemency. The Rosenberg execution was set for the Friday of June 19, 1953, at dusk because the Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown. Worldwide pressure against the execution was tremendous, the Pope used his good offices for mercy, more than 5,000 pickets chanted party-line slogans in front of the White House. Brownell quietly advised the President to go ahead...