Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Niqhtmares & Taxes. Born about 1335, shortly before Boccaccio wrote the Decameron, Datini never knew the terrors of high explosives and concentration camps, let alone the menace of the atomic bomb. In their place he had the Black Death, tyranny, piracy, the ruthless brutality of mercenary armies. He was the son of a Prato tavern-keeper; by wise trading and prudent investment over a period of 32 years, he became rich enough to build his international business...
...with the disarmament talks in London. These talks, for the first time since the formation of the United Nations Disarmament Commission in 1945, show real signs of hope. While the Russian open-skies proposals seem ridiculously unbalanced at first, they are a great improvement over the old "ban the bomb" attitude...
...possibility of harmful results from fallout." But the risk appears to be remote. Reason: there is no present evidence that people living at high altitudes or on land with heavy uranium deposits are more susceptible to these diseases than anyone else. In sum, the risk to man from H-bomb testing "is extremely small compared with risks which persons everywhere take as a normal part of their lives...
Willard Libby was primarily addressing himself to Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the illustrious missionary-physician and Nobel Peace Prizewinner, who had called for an end to H-bomb testing because of the strontium 90 peril. Is it not preferable. Dr. Libby gently asked Dr. Schweitzer, to accept this small risk rather than "the far greater risk, to freedom-loving people everywhere," of slackening "our defenses against the totalitarian forces"-until some method of safeguarded disarmament has been achieved...
...Called on Britain (which is about to set off its first H-bomb) to agree to a temporary suspension of nuclear tests-now that Russia itself had just set off five nuclear explosions within two weeks...