Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some miracle of restraint, none of the participants in this macabre soap opera claimed that the bomb made marvelous underwater suds...
Stephen Mitchell decided that he has troubles enough as chairman of the Democratic National Committee without taking on the special problems of two California Democrats running for Congress: 1) Robert L. Condon, the Congressman who was barred-as a "security risk"-from witnessing atom-bomb tests in Nevada last year; and 2) James Roosevelt, whose wife-now seeking separation-has accused him of adultery with a dozen women...
...world's greatest orator addressed himself this week to the world's most pressing problem. Somehow, it seemed appropriate that Sir Winston Churchill-born in the age of lance-bearing cavalrymen, a captain of two world wars, the statesman who first recognized the A-bomb as the free world's chief deterrent to Communist aggression-should recite the perils and promises of the thermonuclear...
...hydrogen bomb tests, he told the House of Commons, "increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
...long as the U.S. stays ahead of the Communists in the search for more powerful weapons, Churchill continued, the hydrogen bomb will be a deterrent to war. The U.S. advantage also gives "time, though not too much time, to consider the problems which now confront us . . . and to talk them over in their new proportions...