Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the broadcast, Fulton Lewis whisked his prize off to his farm near Hollywood, Md., proudly stood by as Jordan elaborated his story for other reporters. "It is now apparent that Harry Hopkins gave Russia the A-bomb on a platter," said Jordan. Kotikov would call the Russian embassy, he said, and the embassy would "plug in Harry Hopkins at the White House-they had a direct wire . . . Hopkins and I got to know each other very well over the phone...
Although the AEC emphasized the peaceful aspects of its new process, the military aspects are important too. Fissionable material, however obtained, can be burned in a peaceful reactor or detonated in a bomb. If the new converter works as well as expected, it will help the U.S. make more bombs out of less uranium...
...exciting bit of atomic gossip was loudly whispered about last week through Washington's resonant corridors. Tipsters were insisting that U.S. scientists are working on "the hydrogen bomb." The rumors started when Colorado's Senator Edwin Johnson, member of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, told a television audience that the U.S. was trying to make a bomb i ,000 times as powerful as the one used at Hiroshima...
...nation which dropped on the citizens of Japan the devastating atomic bomb makes itself ridiculous when it hesitates at any means of assuring the peoples under the yoke of our potential enemies that we have no quarrel with them...
While urging that the people behind the curtain be informed that the United States will not use the bomb unless forced to do so, Flanders asserted that "they must be ready for bombing which destroys their war industries and transportation...