Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest atom-smashers seldom smash atoms any more-except incidentally. Such mighty machines as the Berkeley Bevatron and the Brookhaven Cosmotron are used chiefly to explore the particles of which atoms are built. Last week the University of California at Berkeley put into operation a special machine for attacking atoms from a new angle. Its cost...
...Disney and made wartime training films for the Government. He does his 10-to-45-minute shorts at the rate of about 20 a year (at a cost to the sponsor of $50,000 to $300,000 each) for such varied industrial giants as General Electric (A Is for Atom), United Fruit (Bananas? Si, Señor), American Telephone & Telegraph (The Voice Beneath the Sea), Du Pont (The Spray's the Thing), the New York Stock Exchange (What Makes Us Tick). Sutherland gets his client's point of view across with suave indirection. He has found...
Initially the agency would only serve as a sort of information center where members could benefit from the study of each others' advances in the peaceful uses of atomic energy--medicine, power, and transportation. The United States would still have security control over whatever knowledge it divulged. The nuclear material "bank" would come into existence later and the United States would meanwhile be free to refuse assistance if control and inspection measures are not to its liking. On the other hand successful measures to assure peaceful 'use might lead to greater international cooperation to limit military use of the atom...
...Hiroshima. Unlike George Brown, the Japanese, who live relatively close (4,700 miles) to Britain's Christmas Island testing area were entirely confident that they knew what the British were doing. Declaring that the test would pollute Japan's Pacific fishing grounds, the Japan Council Against Atom and Hydrogen Bombs noisily formulated plans to send a "peace fleet" into the 750,000 square miles of ocean which Britain has declared off limits to shipping between March i .and Aug. i. Driven by mounting public hysteria, the Japanese government five times formally requested the British to call...
...headquarters in Tokyo after World War II. Norman was called home for questioning and a new security check. The principal point of suspicion: his association with Israel Halperin. a major in the Royal Canadian Artillery who was tried on a charge of aiding the Sam Carr-Fred Rose atom spy ring, and acquitted...