Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish, first of all," he said innocently, "to draw the attention of the House to the agreement we reached in Washington about the atomic bomb. We reached an agreement about its not being used from the East Anglian base without British consent ... A much more important atomic development is now before us. I was not aware until I took office that not only had the Socialist government made the atomic bomb as a matter of research, but that it had created, at the expense of many scores of millions of pounds, the important plant necessary for its regular production." Britain...
Churchill's blockbuster, admitted London's leftist New Statesman and Nation, "was a very carefully placed bomb whose crater opened precisely between Mr. Morrison and his followers." The political future of Herbert Morrison, long the No. 2 man in Labor councils, was wounded badly, perhaps mortally. Clement Attlee had been shown up as a man who kept embarrassing secrets from many of his own political team...
...synods, but he was too good a Junker not to enter Hitler's army when he was called up, on the strength of his World War I service, in 1940. He was released from duty in 1944, after his sister Elizabeth was beheaded for complicity in the Hitler bomb plot...
Kemble agreed with Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics and one of the scientists on the original American bomb project, in saying that the best way for any nation to proceed on an independent basis is first to perform experiments of a fairly independent, imitative nature...
Both men were quick to praise English scientific talent. "There is no question of British ability to produce a bomb or bombs and to do so much less expensively than we did in the beginning," said Kemble. "There is also no question of the quality of British scientists," he continued. "They are among the very best...