Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doves. Last week, on the second anniversary of The Bomb, the people of Hiroshima stood with bared heads bowed around a 43-ft. peace tower to hear a specially cast bell toll for Hiroshima's dead. Muffled sobs stopped when giant firecrackers began to slam like .50-caliber machine guns. Tiny parachutes bore peace festival streamers above the crowd. Thereafter, Hiroshima observed its day of disaster with singing, dancing and boating. Boys & girls pulled peace floats through unshaded streets...
...When The Bomb went off, more than 250,000 lived in Hiroshima. Of these, 175,000 survived the blast. Today, Hiroshima's population has grown back to 210,000. Almost every woman has a baby on her back. Of 60,000 dwellings destroyed, 23,000 have been replaced. The most significant feature of this effort is that 98% of it is black-market construction carried out by the people themselves in defiance of plans and rules...
...ticklish things to handle; tiny specks of some of them can kill. Only skilled scientists can handle these new tools with safety. Such skill is spreading rapidly, and as it spreads, the U.S. is acquiring scientific know-how-which is far more valuable than the perishable "secret" of the Bomb...
...discovered a safe, effective shield against atomic radiation in industrial use. No one was sure how much uranium was available for it. There were tremendous peaks of social, economic, technological forces. Some of the revolutionary forces were already in beneficent use: radioisotopes, byproducts of the bomb, for medicine and scientific research. Others could be roughly charted...
...Writers dry up when their juice dries up. Atomic bomb probably as fatal to writers as cerebral hemorrhage or senility. Meantime good writers should keep on writing...