Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported that in a live test, one light bomb was actually dropped by a jet plane at low altitude, with great accuracy. The jet was not damaged; it was well out of reach of the blast before the bomb exploded. There will be more tests in Nevada; eventually the AEC hopes to fire an "open shot" witnessed by the press, the newsreels, even by television, if the necessary special circuits are set up in the desert. But to test its really big bombs, it has decided that it must go back to Eniwetok. The reason: "We don't want...
...when U.S. scientists were almost boycotting AEC laboratories. Part of their hostility was due to the very real hardships of wartime life at Los Alamos and Oak Ridge. Probably more important was a widespread feeling of revulsion. The scientists had worked with fanatical fervor to build an atom bomb for use against the Axis powers. They succeeded beyond their expectations, and many of them were haunted for years by the horror of their success. In the words of their leader, Robert Oppenheimer, wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, "they had known sin." At any rate, many of them...
...Scientists have been shocked profoundly by recent developments in the U.S.S.R., where their Russian colleagues seem to have lost all freedom of thought. When the Soviet government began to tell its own scientists how they must think scientifically, it did wonders for the morale and recruitment of U.S. atomic-bomb laboratories. That the scientists had to wait so long for proof of the Soviet character indicates that many scientists are as ignorant in the field of politics as the average politician is ignorant of nuclear physics...
...World War II, he became consultant for the atom-bomb project. In 1945 he published the famous "Smyth Report" (Atomic Energy for Military Purposes...
...Bomb Over Gomorrah. "Drama, terror, lust and the BIGGEST explosion ever shown on the screen...