Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...force was calculated at five megatons, i.e., equal to 5,000,000 tons of TNT or 250 times the force of the Hiroshima atomic bomb...
...Stevenson, referring as he did to the investigations of that danger as 'chasing phantoms' . . . We know . . . that men like Alger Hiss and Harry White turned over secret papers to the Communists . . . We know that our atomic experts said that the Russians got the secret of the atomic bomb three to five years before they would have gotten it because of the help they received from Communist spies right here...
...there was an odd sort of comfort for the West in Malenkov's measured warning about the menace of nuclear war. It was the first concrete evidence that the men in the Kremlin, like those in the free world, recognize the suicidal implications of the H-bomb...
Scholarly Commissioner Smyth (the "Smyth Report," 1945), whose service dates from the start of the wartime atom bomb project, has seen atomic energy grow from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...began realizing with growing horror that it would be seen by armies of viewers on ten-inch television screens. He spent two extra days of shooting to achieve an effect which has become one of his trademarks: in every possible situation he told his story with closeups. The Human Bomb was a smash hit-with his sponsors, the critics and the public. In the 2½ years since-years of increasing success and acceptance-Webb has achieved Dear miracles in combining speed and cheap operation, with realism and the look of quality...