Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return for giving up a possible Nobel Prize. Conant 'has directed a great university to some of its most notable triumphs, has made the crucial decision to build the atomic bomb, and has become the most incisive defender of liberal education in the United States today. Inevitably he has also become the sort of public figures editors cherish for making news no matter what he speaks on. Conant is a familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotes of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears...
...time experiences strengthened Conant's views about Communism. At Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, his job was to decide what scientific projects the United States should embark upon. A dramatic incident in this job was his part in deciding that the atomic bomb was enough of a possibility to make an investment of $2 Million worthwhile. A more mundane part was the assigning of scientist to the projects and committees on which he thought they would he most valuable one man a Canadian--whom Conant at pointed to a minor committee later turner out to be a member...
...entered nearly every conceivable line of work--from a staggering list of professional men to the man who perhaps holds the world's most unusual job. He is Dan Lynch the Ayomic Junkman. He works with the Atomic Energy Commission, disposing of and salvaging the materials affected by atomic bomb blasts and tests...
...proposed Georgy N. Zarubin, until last week Soviet Ambassador to Great Britain. Zarubin, who first came to the U.S. in 1939 as assistant commissar general of the Soviet exhibit at the New York World's Fair, was Ambassador to Canada when Soviet spies were caught redhanded stealing atom-bomb secrets. The Canadian Royal Commission later cleared him, produced an exchange of messages between the chief Soviet spy in Canada and his Kremlin boss which indicated that Zarubin was not to be informed of the spy ring in his own embassy...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...