Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bomb explosions in mid-Pacific last year were awesome proof of how big the atom can blow. The 14 test shots at Yucca Flat, Nev., programmed between Feb. 1 and this week, are equally sensational proof of how small the weapon can get-small enough to fit the conventional artillery pieces, bomb racks, torpedo tubes and antiaircraft rifles of the U.S. armed forces and provide them with a jump in firepower as revolutionary as the introduction of gunpowder...
...Labor platform merely goes a bit further than the Conservative. It calls for an immediate end to all atom and hydrogen bomb tests, immediate withdrawal by Chiang from Quemoy and Matsu, the "neutralization" of Formosa, and admission of Red China to the U.N. What both of these platforms add up to can be described in one word-appeasement. So, whether Tories or Socialists win this election, we'll have an "ally" dedicated to knuckling under to Red tyranny all around the world and persistently pressuring our Government to do likewise...
Nothing quite came off on schedule last week. Especially the atom bomb tests in what the announcers persisted in calling "Doomtown, Nevada." Faithful televiewers turned out at 8 a.m. for six successive mornings only to be met each time with fresh postponements. But this failure to make a rendezvous with fission only brought out the essential pluck of the network newscasters. CBS's Charles Collingwood tried hard to keep his end up by filling in with a telecast from Las Vegas where, amid the clatter of one-armed bandits, he solemnly asked the proprietor of The Sands Hotel...
...Administration has also revived last year's plan to get the Government out of the business of running two "atom cities"-Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Richland, Wash. At the request of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Democratic heads of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy last week introduced bills to end Government ownership and operation of Oak Ridge and Richland. The responsibility for schools, streets, etc. would be handed over to local residents, eventually saving the Federal Government upwards of $1,500,000 yearly...
...their hardships, Red China's scientists are producing results. From behind the Bamboo Curtain come rumors that significant supplies of uranium are being developed in Sinkiang province for export to the U.S.S.R. For a time, Italian-born Atomic Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. who left Britain for Moscow five years ago (TIME. March 14). was in command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects...