Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article, O'Donnell descsribes Dr. Conant's wertime activities with the development of the atom bomb, work which has earned him the name of "Professor atom" in Germany...
...eight years older than his boss and ally, Georgy Malenkov, but both men regard themselves as "second-generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...
While Truman, Churchill and Stalin were at Potsdam, news arrived of the successful test of the atomic bomb at Alamogordo. The momentous intelligence came in a code message: "Babies satisfactorily born." Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of War, showed Churchill the message and translated it for him. The U.S. and British leaders, who had been downcast by the desperate Japanese resistance on Okinawa, were immensely cheered...
...question then arose of how to tell Stalin. Truman decided to tell him in a private conversation, and Churchill watched it from about five yards away. "I can see it all as if it were yesterday. He [Stalin] seemed to be delighted. A new bomb! Of extraordinary power! Probably decisive on the whole Japanese war! What a bit of luck!" Afterward, Churchill asked Truman: "How did it go?" The President answered: "He never asked a question." The reason for Stalin's lack of curiosity became clear in later years, but in this account Churchill does not go into postwar...
...house only to find out that he was out of town. And last year, he unconsciously out finessed the Lampoon in the last lecture of English 170 in Sanders Theatre. As he turned to leave the platform, two punsters, clothed in black capes, threw out a smoking balloon-bomb which missed him and only managed to smoke out I. A. Richards, the next lecturer. Today, although well acclimated to Cambridge, Jones admits that, "there are still things about the undergraduate world at Harvard that I don't understand...