Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since his decision to go to Oak Ridge, Rickover's life has been a battle to get the Navy and the atom together. It was a battle of a type that has been fought before-between the necessary conservatism of a military organization and the equally urgent necessity to keep it up to date...
...Needle. The agreement to confer was disposed of in a couple of short paragraphs, but the great bulk of the 3,000-word Soviet note was taken up with needling Eisenhower for failing to call for "unconditional banning of atomic and hydrogen weapons, as well as other types of weapons of mass destruction." Why not, said the note, devote all atomic material to peaceful purposes? This was a skillful playback of a seven-year-old Soviet propaganda line on which U.N. atomic conferences have always foundered. The line has clamored for an immediate outlawing of atomic bombs (the West...
...choose to invoke it openly, and it remained in reserve, like troops uncommitted to battle. His major achievement (whose effects will be measured in 1954) was in the field he knew best: a vast readjustment of the U.S. military to the age of the atom. In practical politics, a field he knew less about and felt a soldier's distaste for, he had yet to make his mark. He had yet to harness the divergent wills and pressures within the Republican Party, and command them, but the signs at 1953's end were that he was prepared...
...Perhaps the most striking fact about modern science, in its explorations ranging from the heart of the atom to the frontiers of the universe, is that, like poetry, like philosophy, it reveals depths and mysteries beyond, and . . . quite different from the ordinary, matter-of-fact world we are used to. Science has given back to the universe that quality of inexhaustible richness and unexpectedness and wonder which at one time it seemed to have taken away from...
...security risks." With that, the honeymoon was over. McCarthy flew to New York and " began closed hearings. Unidentified witnesses scuttled in and out, rumors of missing microfilm and sinister scientists filtered through, and from time to time McCarthy emerged with dark reports of a Communist espionage ring organized by Atom Spy Julius Rosenberg, which "may still be in existence" at Fort Monmouth...