Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors that the Russians now have an atomic bomb began to grow. They will doubtless continue to proliferate. It is obviously to Russia's advantage to encourage such rumors, and some Russian agents have, in fact, encouraged them. (In all probability these reports are false. The U.S. Government may or may not know when Russia makes a Bomb, but the minute it tests one U.S. War Department detection devices will record that fact...
Nevertheless, reports of troop movements increased. This week Palestine watchers said they saw Syrian Arabs, some with armored cars, pitching camp across the border. An "alert" had been sent to Haganah. Somebody (police thought the Arab underground organization, Jihad) tossed a bomb into the compound of the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem...
Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...
When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the resulting explosion touched off not only the most efficient mass slaughter in written history, but a profound if remote jolt to the student of social science. No one needed further proof that the technical genius of man had far outrun the knowledge of his own perversity. The science of the twentieth century laboratory had left the science of the social thinker in the stone age. The committee membership cannot help but recognize this fact...
...Bomb Progress. If they are not yet as far advanced as they might wish in the manufacture of A-bombs, the Russians are well ahead in the field of V-bombs. They have concentrated particularly on very long-range attack by such self-propelled, pilotless aerial weapons, and it is reported that particularly satisfactory results have been obtained at an experimental station in Siberia near the Kamchatka peninsula. Over distances of 900 and 1,300 miles, they can now concentrate their aim within three to six miles of the target...