Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sister Sadie Neale is not worried about the atom bomb. Her mind is on more important things-the great days of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, whom the "world's people" call Shakers...
Both men were carefully checked before the Army assigned them to the Los Alamos atom-bomb plant in 1944. Heavy-set Alexander von der Luft, 23, had been born in Wilmington. His father was an official of the American Cyanamid and Chemical Corp. at Bridgeville, Pa. Von der Luft had interrupted his study of chemical engineering at Princeton University to enlist. He was quiet and studious. Earnest Wallis had been born in Indianapolis in 1913. He had left school to go into commercial photography in Cleveland. His father was a railroad auditor of modest means...
...pages of handwritten notes and documents on atomic processes, other data in the family safe in his home in Mount Lebanon, Pa. Wallis was run down in Chicago late in May. Carelessly thrown in a drawer in his studio were over 200 photographs and negatives pertaining to atomic bomb tests and machinery...
...last week the New York Sun stumbled across something. In three-bank headlines, it announced that "unknown agents" had stolen atom-bomb secrets from the Oak Ridge plant. The quick-to-panic became panicky. Cried New Jersey's J. Parnell Thomas: "We must take drastic steps." In the Senate, Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper rose to say that, as chairman of AEC, he had "no reason to believe" that anything had been stolen from Oak Ridge. But, said he, there was something he should mention. He revealed the Los Alamos theft...
...atom-smashing goes, the uranium bomb is a comparatively gentle affair. Fissioning the uranium atom is roughly comparable to cracking a ripe coconut in half with a well-placed tap: the atom splits neatly into two pieces (lighter atoms) and two or three almost infinitesimal particles (neutrons) that fly off like sparks. Atom smashers believe that they will eventually do much better than that...