Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scenes of labor and industry were followed by a sobering reel of views of Hiroshima, which was the target of the dropping of the first atom bomb 11 years ago next week. Some shots of pre-war Hiroshima preceded scenes of the ruins and rubble left by the single explosion that killed or injured half a million people...
Grimmer still were the pictures of persons with horrible flesh burns or radiation-induced fallen hair and bleeding gums. The series ended with a ghostly shot of human silhouettes against granite--all that remained after the persons were totally vaporized by the bomb...
...Uranium Committees. The super-secret U.S. atom bomb project was born in the fall of 1939, when President Roosevelt created the Advisory Committee on Uranium to decide whether an atomic bomb was a practical possibility. The Russians had the same idea independently, and in April 1940 the Soviet Academy of Sciences set up a comparable Committee for the Problem of Uranium...
...They may have heard about Enrico Fermi's achievement in Chicago (Dec. 2, 1942) of the world's first nuclear chain reaction. Espionage may have helped them. At any rate, they seem to have been convinced, long before the U.S. exploded its first atom bomb (July 16, 1945), that atomic weapons were well worth trying...
...from starting ... at scratch in 1945," says the Rand report, "the Russians should not have been, by that time, too far behind the knowledge and skill that had been achieved in the United States . . . Instead of being surprised that the Russians got the atomic bomb as early as they did, we should perhaps have been surprised that it took them so long...