Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came Kennedy, accompanied by Jackie in a seafoam green evening gown by Oleg Cassini. In the reception line, Chemist Linus Pauling, who had spent the day in a ban-the-bomb picket line outside, got special attention. "Glad to see you expressing your opinions so strongly," said Kennedy heartily. And Jackie twitted him with "Why do you do that? Every time Caroline sees people outside with signs, she says, 'What has Daddy done now?'" In a dinner toast, the President observed: "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been...
...height of what will reportedly be the first shot is so great that, for the first time, the residents of a large city, Honolulu, will be able to see the fireball of a hydrogen bomb at the instant of explosion. In 1958, a shot fired forty-eight miles above Johnston Island produced a flash visible in Hawaii, but the point of detonation could not be seen...
This time it will be well above the horizon. However, the distance of some 950 miles from Honolulu to the bomb, plus the atmosphere's filtering effects along the last part of the light's path, is expected to protect Hawaiians from eye damage...
...problem has nevertheless been sufficiently serious to require consultations with eye specialists. It was recalled that in the 1958 shot, the eyes of experimental rabbits were burned at a range of 370 miles. The bomb's release of energy is so swift that there is not time to blink...
...Stanford, Princeton, Rochester, Pennsylvania and Carnegie Tech as well as Illinois), Seitz has been an outspoken champion of scientists who devote their talents to national problems. In the midst of the loud soul-searching that followed President Truman's 1950 announcement that the U.S. would develop a hydrogen bomb, Seitz stood before the American Physical Society and laid it on the line for his anti-H-bomb colleagues. Said he: "Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western cul ture was being overwhelmed?" In his new job at the academy, Seitz plans...