Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...echo of new rumblings about disarmament negotiations, U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, "the father of the H-bomb." this week came forward with some well-chosen words of scientific caution. Writing in the January Foreign Affairs, Teller (TIME, Nov. 18) looks with knowing doubt on proposals to start disarmament by agreeing to halt tests of nuclear bombs. "It has been claimed that a nuclear test can be noticed around the world and that a ban on tests would therefore appear to be self-policing,"writes Teller. "Actually, a nuclear test is easily noticed only if it is performed in the most...
...preparing for the NATO conference (TIME, Dec. 16), Adlai Ewing Stevenson was once again free to talk, once again assured of a Page One audience. Indeed he had more headline value than at any time since the 1956 campaign, when he advocated ending the military draft and abolishing hydrogen-bomb tests...
...same job in the Mediterranean Allied Air Forces. In the last year of the war, while serving simultaneously as Deputy Chief of Air Staff and chief of staff of the Twentieth Air Force, he helped to set up the B-29 raids on Japan, including the A-bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...nations would cease trying to maintain all-round military forces. Thus Britain would like to concentrate more of its resources on antisubmarine defense, thinks France could better spend its money on plugging one of the many gaps in NATO's conventional defenses than on the wasteful French A-bomb program (TIME, Dec. 9). Britain also wants greater pooling of scientific talent. "The Germans are free to devote 95% of their technological know-how to their export drive while we have 70% of ours tied up on defense work," they complain...
Another Allied spat, this one involving Britain and the United States, rose to the surface with a report that Britain has harnessed the awesome power of the hydrogen bomb, but that lack of U.S. approval has prevented London from making an official announcement...