Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down to the Line. Candidate Stevenson had firmly grasped an issue that seemed to be pulling him backward. The issue: national defense, with special reference to ending hydrogen bomb tests (see below) and the military draft. In no state did TIME correspondents last week find Stevenson gaining because of his national defense proposals. In several, the correspondents found that Adlai had been hurt, because former Stevensonites seemed more willing to trust the nation's defense to Dwight Eisenhower...
...hand, but the world and the American people expect sober consideration from our leaders." So spoke Candidate Adlai Stevenson one day last week after he had learned that the President had rejected a letter from Russia's Premier Bulganin backing Adlai's campaign proposals to stop H-bomb tests...
...early days of 1944, a story entitled "Deadline" appeared in the magazine, Astounding Science Fiction. It included a detailed description of an atomic bomb explosion. FBI agents at once paid a visit to the magazine's editor, John W. Campbell, Jr. The description of the bomb was so accurate and came so far in advance of any public pronouncement about the A-bomb, that the government feared a security leak...
...which present a basic pattern of facts and then view them in new, provocative ways. That, indeed, is just what the author of "Deadline" did. He used certain known bits of science information about the nature of the atom, put them all together, and came up with the A-bomb...
Ever since the discovery of the atomic bomb, the world has lived in an increasing fear of the devastation which could result from an atomic war or the hazards introduced by testing programs. America is in a position to take the first step away from this age of uneasiness. Considerations arising from fear, which appear to hinder the United States, are trivial in comparison with the contribution which this country can and should make towards a peaceful world...