Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First A-Bomb Plants. The tense problem of the atomic bomb is naturally bothering the Soviet high command. Russia has the knowledge-but she has not yet brought manufacture of the bomb to an industrial level. Already, however, the Soviet Union has begun to build the first three plants for the production of A-bombs. They are in eastern Siberia and will be ready to begin turning out bombs in some 12 to 18 months...
...conspirators. At first, few Czechs in Prague seemed to realize that Slovakia was just the place for a conspiracy, because the Slovakian democratic Party was the biggest singly stumbling block to absolute Communist power in Czechoslovakia. But last week they came to with a jerk. Ferjencik named as the bomb plot's' ringleaders the two general secretaries of the Slovak Democratic Party. They were Jan Kempny and Milos Bugar-both Catholics, both members of the Czechoslovak Parliament. All at once it was terribly clear that, if these two were disposed of, the Slovak Democratic Party would...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...
...interests run as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky. At Scripps Institution in La Jolla (pronounced La Hoya), Cal oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron. On its 10,000 acres grow tomatoes, peaches, oranges, olives, avocados, alfalfa. A man can get frostbite or burn to a crisp without leaving university premises. The university employs 12,000 professors, janitors...
Even though (as he loves to point out) his Chicago Tribune is published deep in the heart of the U.S., Col. Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick feels a little unsafe. Last week the Trib reported to its readers that when the first atomic bomb falls on Chicago, 3,000 Tribune Tower employees will have a bombproof hole to scamper into. For his atomic shelter, the Colonel set aside the second basement of the Tower, "a room massively walled and ceiled with heavy concrete and steel beams...