Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...August, 1949, years ahead of the most pessimistic U.S. predictions, the Russians achieved their first atomic explosion. Far from urging a crash program to produce an H-bomb, the Atomic Energy Commission's influential General Advisory Committee of scientists, chaired by Oppenheimer, voted flatly and unanimously against any H-bomb program...
...British Physicist Klaus Fuchs confessed that he had passed atomic secrets to Communist agents. Fuchs had been present at Los Alamos when Teller & Co. reviewed all that was known about thermonuclear reactions. Four days after Fuchs's confession, Harry Truman directed AEC to go ahead with the H-bomb...
...Ph.D. in 1936. In the early years of World War II he worked at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project in 1943, Los Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent President Eisenhower an electronic golf trainer that he had invented), once told his father...
...nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, 53, . director and professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is "the father of the atomic bomb," i.e., the superb organizer and catalyst who, during World War 11, kept the high-strung, fenced-in Los Alamos colony working with desperate single purpose on the first Abomb. The son of a prosperous German immigrant, he was born in New York City, got his first taste of science at five, when he was visiting his grandfather in Germany and received a gift box of minerals. At Manhattan's Ethical Culture School he completed...
...Radiation Laboratory, explains with disarming simplicity: "I discover new elements." Born in the mining town of Ishpeming, Mich., he found his calling in a Los Angeles high-'school science class, pursued it at the University of California (Ph.D., chemistry, 1937), became a key developer of the atomic bomb. In 1951, with Colleague Edwin M. McMillan, he won the Nobel Prize for his discovery (in 1940) of element 94 (plutonium), has since played a heavy role in finding subsequent elements (through No. 101). Although he finds little time nowadays for following football very closely (he is faculty representative...