Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington last week, that eminent scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, was called to the telephone by a reporter who wanted guidance on what the new Russian atomic-bomb explosion meant. "I'm listening to the World Series, as you should be," retorted the doctor hurriedly. He added, politely: "Giants ahead, six to nothing," and hung up. Once more the U.S. celebrated the seven days of the long lunch hour, the surreptitious telephone call, the quick office bet, and-to feverish New Yorkers-of the hunt for the ducat, the pasteboard, the seat at the game. BASEBALL FEVER, the sports pages...
White House correspondents, watching a pressroom TV set while the New York Giants battled the Brooklyn Dodgers, got a special summons to the office of Presidential Press Secretary Joe Short. Short looked gravely through his spectacles, and began reading from a paper before him. "Another atomic bomb has recently been exploded within the Soviet Union," he read. "This event confirms again that the Soviet Union is continuing to make atomic weapons . . . Further details cannot be given without adversely affecting our national security interests...
...Hint. Three days later, a Pravda reporter got further details from Joe Stalin himself. Asked the reporter: "What is your opinion of the hubbub raised recently in the foreign press in connection with the test of an atom bomb in the Soviet Union?" Replied Stalin: "Indeed, one of the types of atom bombs was recently tested in our country. Tests of atom bombs of different calibers will be conducted in the future as well." He repeated the Communist propaganda line that the Soviet Union stands for outlawing atomic bombs. Most Russians do not know that the U.S.S.R. has wrecked...
...which had gone into a flap when the first Russian bomb was exploded two years ago, accepted the news of Bomb No. 2 for what it was worth. The atomic pundits speculated that the blast had gone off some time within the last month, were surprised that it hadn't come sooner. By now, they estimated, Russia may have stockpiled between 20 and 100 bombs. Stalin's reference to "different calibers" was taken as a hint that Russia, too, was on the trail of tactical atomic weapons...
...next problem was to get the 58th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron to drop the pole from one of its B-29s on the drifting ice covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan...