Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shepley-Blair report, The Hydrogen Bomb, is now the center of a roaring controversy. The book has been denounced by men of weight, including many leading atomic scientists. Certain journalists have said that the book implies a plot on the part of atomic scientists against the U.S. They have said that the book is part of an anti-intellectual wave that is making it impossible for scientists to work for the Government...
Such a conflict would be even more serious than the H-bomb delay. For if the U.S. cannot continue to enlist the support of science, if it cannot solve the critical problems of the relationship between the national interest and the pursuit of knowledge, then the U.S. will not survive-and will not deserve to survive. These are not questions for scientists alone or for public officials alone; they affect everybody, and it is wholesome, though painful, that the Shepley-Blair report brings a much larger part of this important argument to public view...
...Limitations. The Shepley-Blair book begins with the following important statement of its own limitations: "A full assessment of the delay in development of the hydrogen bomb and its effect on the survival of the U.S. as a nation and upon the future of mankind will be impossible for some years to come. These reporters have not attempted to do so here, or to ascribe motives to the individuals responsible...
...later, Truman's committee met. Tensely, they discussed the chance that the Russians, briefed by Fuchs, might have a start in thermonuclear development. Acheson and Johnson voted to recommend full speed ahead. Lilienthal voted against. That afternoon President Truman announced his decision to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...first Russian H-bomb was exploded...