Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Libby's deductions are unsound, untrue and dangerous. Our H-bomb testing is matched by Russia's, and so the race goes on, and will and must lead to war, i.e., to a destruction of our civilization...
After three years of scientific experiment (at a cost of some $200 million) and a storm of politico-moral argument that had risen to a shrill crescendo over the past fortnight, Britain last week dropped its first H-bomb off Christmas Island. 1,160 miles south of Hawaii...
...plan: to get aboard the "peace fleet" that the Japan Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs proposes to send into the danger area when Britain explodes its first hydrogen bomb at Christmas Island this summer. "I willingly sacrifice myself to prove to the world the horror of this devilish thing," he declared to reporters. Warned that the peace fleet may not sail for lack of funds, Steele replied: "Then I will sail alone into the Christmas Island area. Or perhaps I could get some vessel to drop me on an atoll in the area, where I could...
Doubt for Posterity? Last week the British government was belabored by increasingly shrill protests against its bomb tests. Twenty-three women dressed in mourning "for the thousands of people already affected by H-bomb explosions and for the thousands that will be in the future," called at 10 Downing Street to hand a protest to Prime Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia...
...MONOPOLY on atomic energy from hydrogen fusion will be broken by private industry. With ultimate goal of producing peaceful hydrogen electric power, eleven Texas utilities and General Dynamics Corp. are starting four-year, $10 million program in General Dynamics' San Diego lab to research ways of controlling H-bomb-type fusion...