Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British Association for the Advancement of Science, Nobel Prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft announced a bit of long-range good news. He was sure, said Sir John, that long before the world exhausts its supply of uranium fuel, the energy of "the fusion of light elements (as in the hydrogen bomb) can be turned from destructive to peaceful uses. If this is true, the human' race need not worry about its energy supply for a very long time...
...could see the supplies, the trucks and material stacked up but we were not permitted to hit it. We could not violate the air over Manchuria. In order to hit a target in your bomb run, you have to fly a straight course, and you usually try to bomb on the length of the bridge and not crossways. But in order not to violate the air over Manchuria, Communist China, we could not fly the length of the bridge to take it out. We could not go over midstream...
Washington's first "atom-bomb-proof" building is nearing completion just five miles north of the White House. Surprisingly, it is neither an Air Defense Command center nor a refuge for the President and his staff,* but a new laboratory for the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, designed to preserve the nation's vital file of military medical knowledge (e.g., 656,000 individual specimens, 6,000,000 pathological slides) and enable scientists to carry on their work despite atomic attack...
Already the laboratory is probably obsolete. If a 5-megaton H-bomb like the one detonated in "Operation Ivy" (TIME, April 12) were aimed at the White House, experts calculate that the laboratory would lie within the "heavy damage" radius (three to seven miles); and the expendable south annex would be shattered. If a much larger H-bomb were dropped, the monolith's chances of survival would be slim indeed...
...Lives. There is a kind of greatness in Marcks's life. The Nazis hounded him. exhibited his work as "de generate," then melted much of it down for armaments. During World War II, an Allied bomb destroyed his Berlin studio and all it contained. He started over again in Mecklenburg, but after a year the Russians arrived, broke into his new studio and smashed everything they, found. His eldest son was killed at the front. Through all this he never wavered in his reverence for life nor in his dedication...