Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will continue for years, with scientists contributing a minor part of the wordage. Most of them realize that the major decisions are political and moral rather than scientific. Professors George W. Beadle and Alfred Henry Sturtevant of Caltech's biology division speak for this group. They believe that bomb testing is dangerous to the world at large and should be held to a minimum, but they do not know how to balance human danger against the military advantage that may be won by testing. "We don't know what is gained by the tests," says Dr. Beadle...
...well aware of the adverse opinion swirling around him. He thinks the AEC does not get proper credit for the effort it is making to find out more about the effects of fallout on humans. The AEC has also markedly reduced the radioactive poisons released by its megaton bomb tests, and it promises to make future tests even "cleaner...
...Clean Bomb...
From the military point of view, clean megaton bombs have two strikes against them: 1) they are built at very high cost in explosive yield, presumably because they cannot use cheap and plentiful uranium 238; and 2) they may be good for special military uses, such as obliterating a city whose site must be occupied soon, but they lack the full punch of "dirty" megaton bombs. No one could be sure that a U.S. enemy, for instance, would use a clean bomb to obliterate Washington when the fallout of a dirty one might kill, in addition, most of the inhabitants...
Other pop and jazz records: Atom Bomb Baby (The Five Stars; Dot). A rocking, slack-mouthed salute to a terrifying mid-20th-century paragon who is "a million times hotter than TNT." A candidate for success in the jukebox and leather-jacket...