Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willingness and capacity to broaden himself in relation to these increases is of major importance. Oppenheimer pointed out that most learning processes of a scholastic nature tend to slow down greatly after one's formal education is over, and often it is only the shock of an A-bomb explosion, for instance, which makes one aware of the tremendous changes in our modern physics...
...exposed to attack to make sure that the bases which are set up for the purpose of attack be liquidated at once. No one can expect anything else. The blow which would be directed toward destroying the aggressor's bases would inevitably hit much greater areas. One hydrogen bomb [can destroy] a radius of up to several hundred kilometers. One might ask what would happen if several such bombs were used...
...sort of incident he had dreaded took place. One day his seven-year-old daughter delivered a gift of some stationery to an elementary school. A group of boys suddenly surrounded her. Screaming "American, your nose is too high. Baka! [stupid idiot]. You dropped the atomic bomb on us," they threatened to beat her with sticks. Though the boys never carried out this 1954 threat, the incident was proof enough that Fazl Fotouhi had a most delicate educational task ahead...
...hospital, a community center and possibly a new physical-science laboratory for the university. But even if these dreams never come true, Hiroshima will not soon forget him. Wrote one university professor on learning of his coming departure: "I lost my father and all my property in the A-bomb attack, but I have, through Mr. Fotouhi's profound character, come to feel that his remaining here is desired not only for the sake of the U.S. but for the welfare of mankind...
Director of the Los Alamos, N.M. laboratory that developed the atomic bomb from 1943 to 1945, Oppenheimer now heads the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, N.J. In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission denied him access to atomic secrets on grounds that he was "not a good security risk...