Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spelled out before a meeting of the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee in London the new U.S. plan aimed at limiting and eventually halting H-bomb construction. Gist of the plan: the U.S., Britain and Russia, having first agreed on an "effective inspection plan," should 1) halt production of fissionable material for weapons purposes on April 1, 1958, or as soon as possible thereafter upon the ratification of the necessary agreements; and 2) thereafter divert all such nuclear production to peaceful purposes. Net effect of the plan: while allowing the big powers to hang on to nuclear weapons stockpiled before...
...research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government in any way in "the production, testing or even use" of atomic weapons...
...side with freedom as it exists today in the Western world in contrast to Communism," said the scientists, and they acknowledged that "mutual fear of the hydrogen bomb contributes substantially to the preservation of peace" today, but "we hold this way of preserving peace to be unreliable in the long run. For a small country such as West Germany we believe the best defense of itself and of world peace lies in the voluntary forgoing of possession of atomic weapons in any form...
After paying a courtesy call on Sir Winston Churchill, 82, Japan's Dr. Masatoshi Matsushita, special envoy on H-bomb menaces, repeated Sir Winston's formula for longevity: "A lot of drinking, a lot of eating and eight or nine hours of sleep-most of it in the daytime...
MOSCOW, April 19--Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov warned the West tonight that the Moscow-directed Warsaw Pact powers will match NATO bomb for bomb, missile for missile...