Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widower give the names and ages of his three children to a rebel officer and a clerk. "They told him he must be glad that his children would be taken away to the safety of other countries," said the two peasants. "They said soon the Monarcho-Fascists would bomb Kranies, and in Rumania his children would receive a good education...
...scientists are about to tell all that can safely be told about the vast wartime researches that led to the atom bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission announced last week that it intends to issue, within the next two years, more than 100 volumes, averaging 500 pages each...
...first two, soon to be published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., will deal with medical aspects of the bomb research. The series will eventually cover everything from the technology of the voracious gas, fluorine (which gnaws holes in glass and makes bricks burn), to leak detectors for gas-tight rooms and compartments. The only information left out: the military supersecrets directly connected with the bomb and its atomic relatives...
Doctors have no prescription that will prevent somebody from dropping an atom bomb. But they continue to worry about what medicine can do to make atomic bombing less frightful for the victims. Last fortnight, at the Navy's invitation, all kinds of doctors (civilian, Army, Navy and the U.S. Public Health Service) met in Bethesda, Md. for a two-week "indoctrination" course in atomic medicine's latest findings. When the doctors went home, they carried no cheery news with them...
...Could there be immunization against radiation? Science should investigate the possibility said Colonel Elbert Decoursey, Army pathologist who studied atomic 'bomb victims at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He did not suggest exposing people to tiny atomic bombs as a way of building up resistance, but he did cite research with animals: rats that have been dehydrated (the amount of water in their bodies reduced) survived longer than other rats .when exposed to radiation; animals whose metabolism was slowed down before exposure also did better. Thousands of lives could be saved, Colonel Decoursey said hopefully (while the other doctors looked politely...