Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five-megaton H-bomb fell on Union Station," wreaking "total destruction within three miles," but by that time, reported civil defense officials, the President was "well out of danger" at a secrecy-shrouded mountaintop "Emergency White House" (one of several alternate command posts) less than 200 miles away. There, with his staff, he settled down to direct dry-run command operations under a simulated "unlimited state of emergency." One by one, the bulletins flashed in over the closed-circuit emergency communications system: enemy aircraft were striking south from Alaska and Canada; 100 U.S. cities were blasted in atomic attack. Adding...
...Noted the "amazing" charge by Soviet Dictator Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S. efforts to develop a "clean" H-bomb amounted to "a stupid thing," replied promptly that "avoidance of mass human destruction in an atomic war is and has been a prime objective of the Administration no less than the aim of eliminating the possibility of war itself. Such efforts-to which the U.S. is dedicated-are and will be continuing...
...Clean Bombs. At his weekly news conference the President made two unexpected gestures of good will. Two weeks ago, he recalled, AEC Chairman Strauss and three top U.S. scientists had reported that U.S. H-bomb fallout has been reduced by 96%, and that, given more time and testing opportunities, they could be made 100% clean (TIME, July 8). Declared Ike: "If, ever under any circumstances," the U.S. makes another major H-bomb test, he would invite "any" other nation, including Russia, to visit the test site, "put its proper instruments in the air," and thus decide for itself the degree...
Disarmament. In London, at week-long meetings of the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee, U.S. Delegate Harold Stassen spelled out for Russia's Valerian Zorin a two-point U.S. plan for ending the H-bomb race as a "first step" toward overall arms reduction...
...proposals prompted as many questions as they answered. Reporters wanted to know whether this meant that the Administration, in view of the prospect of being able to produce a clean bomb, had changed its mind about the desirability of suspending nuclear tests even if the Russians should agree...