Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basin at Yucca Flat, Nev., some 1,500 G.I.s and technical observers huddled face down in deep, narrow trenches. If they were tense and nervous, they had reason. Never before had willing men waited so near the site of an imminent atomic explosion. Only two miles away, an A-bomb (officially called a "Nuclear Diagnostic Device") was perched on a tall steel tower, 300 feet above "Ground Zero...
Democrat Symington recalled to his listeners the complacency fostered by the Truman Administration. In October 1949, the month after the Russians exploded their first atom bomb, the Truman Administration decided to cut U.S. armed strength. Even Chinese intervention in Korea, said Symington, "did not bring us to our senses . . . We were told that we could handle this new Soviet aggression with one hand, while we piled the other hand high with butter and automobiles and television sets...
Always on the alert for new fields, McGraw-Hill registered the title Atomic Power right after the first atom bomb, now publishes it as Nucleonics, which is still losing money. But the company has had to wait before for a new trade to catch up with its magazine, and Hack McGraw isn't worried. Said he: "It's another stake in the future. We think it will carry itself well when private industry really gets going in atomic energy...
...Bomb Target . . . U.S.A. (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). A documentary on U.S. preparations for handling atomic disaster. Narrator: Arthur Godfrey...
...thing the experimenters want to know: Why does snow vary in weight all the way from one to 40 Ibs. a cu. ft.? They are measuring its tensile strength, learning which varieties can be packed into runways, which must be scraped away. And they are studying its reaction to bomb blasts...