Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVER since the first H-bomb explosion (TIME, April 12, 1954), the world has become increasingly worried about the effect of radioactive fallout on the health of the human race. The question of stopping or limiting the testing of nuclear weapons is not purely scientific. It is also a military and moral problem, but most of the pertinent facts are scientific. For the opinions of the world's scientists on this disquieting matter, see SCIENCE, How Dangerous Are the Bomb Tests...
Beyond the facts released by the Air Ministry-that the bomb was dropped from a four-engined Vickers Valiant painted gleaming white-Macmillan would add only that "first indications are that the local fallout [of dangerous radioactive substances] was almost negligible...
...days after the bomb dropped, Harold Steele, the bewildered, bespectacled Quaker chicken farmer from the west of England who volunteered to face radioactive death in the area as a protest, arrived unheralded in Tokyo to learn from reporters that the blast had already gone-off. "I'm greatly disappointed," he said. "This trip has cost me my entire life savings...
...Reaction Motors, which has concentrated heavily on research since its founding in 1941, is just getting into mass production. Reaction made the first 350-lb. thrust engine for World War II's experimental Gorgon flying bomb, built the liquid fuel engines for Bell's X-1 series rocket planes. Currently, Reaction is at work on a rocket booster for a U.S. Air Force plane, has a contract to produce rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which...
...m.p.h. B-52. Last week Boeing won a $7,109,195 Air Force production contract-and the promise of more-for a new aircraft calculated to give any bomber crewman the shakes. The craft: Boeing's deadly Bomarc guided missile, whose mission is to knock down atom-bomb-carrying planes like Boeing...