Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold C. Urey, director of the War Research Atomic Bomb Project (1940-45), got right to the point. The U.N., he declared, is "one of the most inadequate organizations for the enormous problems before it that could possibly be devised...
...crude, primitive atom bomb that wrecked Hiroshima had the force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...
...general was probably not telling the whole story. Early, inefficient bombs released only about 1% of the "fission energy" of their uranium or plutonium. Bull's better bomb may have raised the figure to 2%. But without any new principle, a bomb can be 50 times as powerful as the model the general hinted at. One such bomb, skillfully placed, could do a Hiroshima job on all of Greater New York...
...Mice were being used in large quantities to study atomic-bomb effects...
...Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that...