Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serves as a mother ship for the fighter, carrying it partly inside, and can launch it in flight and pick it up again. Using the team, the long-range B-36 could carry a short-range but speedy fighter close to a target, release it to drop an atom bomb. As the wire services carried Cain's story around the country, only one thing marred his pride: a woman reader telephoned to thank him because her husband had refused to believe her when she told him several weeks before about the B-36's new tricks...
...have to know our Allies," Hopper stated. "We've got to have people who will hunt tigers with us." Saying that we lost our natural allies in enemy countries in the last World War by saturation bombing techniques, he added, "I believe that the atom bomb should not have been dropped...
...year ago, slapped restrictions on the foreign circulation of U.S. technical journals, the Bulletin was in the forefront of the fight that got the order repealed. The Bulletin is well aware that the Russians read it to try to chart U.S. military and political thinking on the bomb. But Editor Rabinowitch thinks that the U.S. also gains by circulating the magazine in Russia. "It may be but a trickle of fresh water penetrating through the wall," said he, "but even the Russians cannot help being influenced or shaken in their Communist beliefs by what they read from the West...
...explosion of the first A-bombs over Japan led to the founding of the Bulletin in 1945. Many scientists, appalled at the destruction, felt that they needed a magazine to help educate the world about the atom bomb. They raised enough money to print 500 copies of a semimonthly newsletter. Rabinowitch, a 51-year-old, Russian-born physical chemist who worked on the Chicago bomb project and now teaches at the University of Illinois, had no trouble finding writers. He has seven Nobel Prizewinners on his editorial board. Scientists like Albert Einstein, Harold C. Urey, Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard...
...magazine is careful to print no classified material, has held up an article as long as three years for clearance. Despite this leisurely pace, the editors and contributors think that the world is running out of time in which to work out the international problems of the atom bomb. When the Bulletin began, the cover pictured a clock with the hands at eight minutes to midnight. Now the hands have been moved up to three minutes of twelve...