Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Months before the first atomic bomb was exploded in Alamogordo, N.Mex., in July 1945, someone tipped off Moscow. The Russians quickly followed up the tip. In the files of the Russian intelligence services in Moscow there was the name of a British physicist, a secret member of the Communist Party, then working on the atomic project in Canada: Dr. Allan Nunn...
...before returning to England he was able to pass on to Zabotin minute samples of separated uranium isotopes. Zabotin immediately sent one of his men flying back to Moscow with the samples, dispatched this signal to Moscow: "Facts given by Alek: 1) the test of the atomic bomb was conducted in New Mexico (with '49', '94-239'). The bomb dropped on Japan was made of uranium 235. It is known that the output of uranium 235 amounts to 400 grams daily at the magnetic separation plant at Clinton . . . Alek handed us a platinum with 162 micrograms...
...Igor Gouzen-ko had been in Canada only two years, but he had learned to love the free Western way of life. Entrusted with the coding of Zabotin's dispatches, he became alarmed at the magnitude of the conspiracy and the added power the possession of an atomic bomb would give Dictator Stalin. One evening Gouzenko ran out of the embassy with his shirt stuffed with Moscow telegrams, including some mentioning Alek...
...keeps command of its own Sixth Fleet (largest in the area) under Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney, with responsibility for delivering the atomic bomb and supporting land operations. Britain keeps command of its own Mediterranean fleet plus the French and Italian naval forces assigned to NATO...
Wide Open. Government requirements that business records be kept for from one to ten years have given Mosler's sales a big boost. (In ten years, they have more than tripled.) Another big sales stimulator has been the atom bomb. For such customers as the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Mosler has built a bombproof stronghold for records 30 feet below Metropolitan's Manhattan headquarters, which even a direct hit will not destroy. (A Mosler vault in Hiroshima's Teikoku Bank, only 300 yards from the center of the atom bomb's blast, was unbreached...