Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia? Last week, in an analysis of comparative economic growth between the Iron Curtain and the Western powers, prepared for the Joint Congressional Committee on the Economic Report, the U.S. got an answer that went far beyond the usual statistics-numbers of divisions, fleets of bombers, supplies of atom bombs...
...plutonium could be made into atom bombs, but Dr. Bhabha is sure that India will never make a bomb. He wants to use all the plutonium in breeder reactors to turn India's thorium into ever-growing amounts of nuclear fuel...
...sister ship is now under construction at Groton. Two more atom subs have been authorized by Congress, and three more will be requested in the President's 1956 shipbuilding program. And that is only the beginning...
...week's most-talked-about show was Ed Murrow's See It Now, which presented a half-hour "conversation" with Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, directing genius in the making of the atom bomb and last year (TIME, July 12) denied security clearance by a 4-to-1 vote of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...maintaining of the new machines. Said another C.I.O. boss, the late Philip Murray, in 1951: "I do not know of a single, solitary instance where a great technological gain has taken place in the U.S. that it has actually thrown people out of work." The Age of the Atom. The age of atomic power changed from dream to the threshold of reality in 1954. The new Atomic Energy Act brought the atom out from behind the closed doors of Government monopoly and gave industry the right - and incentive - to build, own and operate atomic-power plants. Some...