Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What has this work accomplished? No direct answer is possible, but men in a position to know are deeply impressed. After the tests at Eniwetok Atoll in 1948, they say, it looked as if the bomb-improvers of Los Alamos would find little more to do. The original bombs had been improved so much already that only small gains in efficiency could be expected...
...Possibilities. Then things began to happen. Several methods of greatly improving bomb performance showed up in the theoretical calculations. Both the Los Alamos physicists and their bosses back in Washington got excited. They longed to try out the new designs at once, but tests at Eniwetok cost $20 to $100 million, and required a fleet of ships, 9,000 men and several months of time. Why not a test on land and right around home...
...bomb went off with a deafening, almost smokeless, explosion at 10:20 p.m. The front of the house was reduced to sagging debris in a split second. Moore's wife rose, wounded, dazed and screaming, amid a tangle of dust-clouded wreckage. But Moore lay motionless. He bled gently from the mouth and died just after his terrified friends got him to a hospital...
...hours after he wrote the letter, and know personally that he had not been drinking." Not long after, Columnist Winchell slyly turned on Lyons when he was threatened with jail for refusing to name the source of news items in his column on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the A-bomb spies (TIME, May 14). Lyons was conducting what he considered a gallant defense of freedom-of-the-press for all newsmen. But Winchell unfeelingly wrote: "Let him go to jail. It will give me a big laugh...
Cradled between the northern Rockies and the Cascades is a vast area-eastern Washington and parts of Montana, Idaho and Oregon-which natives like to call the Inland Empire. Bigger than New England, it is rich in wheat, minerals, apples, lumber, scenery-and atom-bomb works. The-chief bellringer and arbiter for the empire is the Spokane Spokesman-Review, a newspaper which President Truman in one of his cocky moods once paired with Bertie McCormick's Chicago Tribune as "worst" in the country...