Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Oppenheimer '26, who played a significant part in the atomic bomb epic, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree...
...deliver a cheap-seats catcall at international politicos; the next he may tool up an ancient vaudeville wheeze into a brisk short short. A sample of his grandest manner: "Even if we told them how, I don't think the Russians could make the atom bomb. . . . I gather it takes more than a cyclotron, some chemists, and a boy to run out for coffee. I don't think the Soviets have what it takes. . . . How come they haven't been able to turn out a first-rate automobile? There are no top secrets in a Chevvy...
...first atomic bomb released almost as many atom books as neutrons. Few were any good. But a recent book, Explaining the Atom, by Professor Selig Hecht of Columbia University (Viking Press, $2.75) actually comes close to its claim of making "the atom and its energy comprehensible to the intelligent layman...
With the same simplicity, he explains the main political fact about The Bomb: that no "atomic secret" exists. "Atomic energy," he says, "was known and evaluated in 1900; the basic equation was written in 1905. Its meaning . . . has come slowly with each new discovery. . . . If there were a secret, we gave it away...
July 1945. It is that a chain reaction is possible and that it can be used to make a bomb. . . . Can another country make an atomic bomb? Of course it can. . . . The real secret is that there is no basic secret...