Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more obscure fronts, the prospect was not so bright. The Russians might get the atomic bomb (a German scientist escaped from Russia last week said they would soon have it). If equalization took place in this way, Washington would probably learn about it from Geiger counters capable of "hearing" radioactive particles thousands of miles away. When those Geigers begin to click, war will be nearer...
Last week a U.S. mission, returned from a checkup of survivors, had a report ready. Its gist: after 18 months, the biological effects of the 1945 Bomb had not disappeared, had not been finally tallied, might still show up in horrible forms years & years from...
...Russian Embassy in Ottawa. It took him 36 frantic hours tb persuade anyone to listen to his shocking story-that a handful of traitorous Canadians had sent to Moscow information of the greatest importance about radar as well as samples of precious uranium 235 from which the atom bomb is made...
...mesa where the town of Los Alamos now stands, there was once a school for boys. In 1942 the U.S. Army bought Los Alamos Ranch School, folded it up and asked the alumni not to mention its name. Then they began to build the town that built the atom bomb...
...average U.S. citizen had assumed that his world would soon get back to normal after the war. He could hardly escape the fact of the atomic bomb, but he thought he could forget it for a while. The national debt was big, but it wouldn't explode; and the Russians, though annoying, would be busy rebuilding Minsk. He ordered an automobile, ate a steak, and waited irascibly for Better Conditions. But last week, as spring grudgingly began to warm the continent, he had reached a reluctant conclusion: things were probably as normal as they were ever going...