Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Molotov said: "It is a known fact that a sort of new religion has gripped the expansionist circles of the United States. Having no-faith in their internal strength, they put their faith in the secret of the atom bomb, even though it has long since ceased to be a secret...
...fact, Molotov said no more than U.S. scientists and political spokesmen have been saying plainly for two years. Since U.S. publication of the Smyth report (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945), there has been no basic "secret of the atomic bomb." To make the bomb requires a host of highly developed technological "secrets" which Russia might not have. In time Russia" would have all these little secrets, too. The U.S. understood that the Russians would some day be able to make the bomb. That was one reason why the U.S. had offered free exchange of all information, provided only that subscribing nations...
...Pasadena, a California Institute of Technology geneticist declared last week that atomic-bomb radiation does indeed affect heredity. Dr. Ernest G. Anderson displayed some misshapen ears of corn-second-generation descendants of corn seed that had been exposed to radioactivity in the Bikini bomb tests. Said he: the Bikini corn, which produced a large percentage of abnormal offspring, may be a forecast of tragedy to come among the descendants of Hiroshima survivors...
...picture is significant in a larger context. Very possibly, it was the Englishman's concern with such minor themes as the Pipit that enabled him to preserve his perspective during the war. This important aspect is conveyed, not in melodramatic buzz-bomb sequences, but in small-town scenes, and indicates the cogency of Rank's approach. The Pipit's sincere saga does more than just muddle through--it scores a tweedy triumph...
Today, the bomb and the revolutionary troops are as unremembered as William Stoughton's evil reputation, and Stoughton Hall continues to look down in respectable near-anonymity at students trekking past the Old Pump...