Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cold. Six years ago, as the atomic age mushroomed, Britain suddenly found herself out in the cold without a bomb or blueprint. By act of Congress, foreign scientists were barred from U.S. atom laboratories, unceremoniously ending the wartime cooperation that led to the A-bomb discovery...
...army sergeant major, Penney got a top-grade education in nuclear physics by making a clean sweep of the best fellowships, including one at the University of Wisconsin. He worked at Los Alamos, sat in the observation plane (the only British scientist) when the third A-bomb exploded over Nagasaki...
...Shaped Blast. The first Bikini A-bomb tests established his reputation for sagacity on a shoestring. Disdaining the elaborate, expensive apparatus that his U.S. colleagues set up to measure the blast, Penney filled 1,000 empty gasoline tins with sea water and sealed them with cardboard flaps. When, as he predicted, the bomb knocked out the official instruments, the amiable Briton studied his crushed cans, measured the lost water, "did a bit of a sum" and came up with the answer. The U.S. offered him four times his $8,000 salary as chief of Britain's armaments research...
...atom bombs of World War II were bulky monsters weighing close to five tons. The B295 that atom-bombed Japan carried only one on each mission. But atom bombs have been getting smaller and handier. The Army's description last week of its atomic gun gives an idea of how small a modern atom bomb...
...heady days the Fair Dealing New York Post's energetic Editor James Wechsler, 37, was sitting on top of the world. Jubilantly, Wechsler pounded out an editorial describing his paper's beat on the Nixon fund as a "time bomb," jeered at the rest of the U.S. press for ignoring it or playing it down when it first broke. Wrote he: "The story might have been greeted with more immediate and general press enthusiasm if a Democratic nominee had been involved." But after Nixon gave his television speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) it quickly became clear that the Post...