Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where he has long been a leader in the unimpressive field of British pianists, but it really took World War II to bring Solomon out. When he was not touring for the troops, he worked as an air-raid warden in his district of Kensington, fighting fires, digging out bomb victims, pausing only after the night's work to look at his hands...
...gathering, reminiscent of the pro-war spring riots, was observed but not hindered by both Yard and Cambridge police. Also in the crowd were increasingly large numbers of local urchins who reveled in the water-bomb throwing and the magnificent sawdust fight which culminated the affair...
...give interviews is suicidal. The statement ascribed to me [from a San Francisco Chronicle interview] about the "muskets at Cressy" being "as effective in their time" as the atom bomb burdens me with two absurdities. The first was my fault; I should have remembered, even in the excitement of being interviewed by two fair women, that there were no muskets at Cressy. The second was due to forgivable abbreviation in the press; what I said was that there had been as much advance in military destructiveness between Cressy (1346) and 1939 as between 1939 and Hiroshima; and that the increased...
...gradual disarmament?" Stalin's answer was "Naturally." Acheson pointed out that the U.S. demobilization had been "not gradual but . . . precipitant." With other U.N. nations, he said, the U.S. had supported attempts to settle disputes peacefully, to establish an international police force and international control of the atomic bomb. Their efforts were blocked by Soviet vetoes and intransigence...
...Atom" has received the approval of the American Scientific Affiliation and the recommendation of the Atomic Energy Commission. It includes actual photographs of the atomic bomb explosions at Nagasaki and Bikini and of scientific apparatus used in atomic research...