Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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March 1, 1954: The first droppable U.S. H-bomb was exploded...
...Father of the Bomb. In the months after the President's order, there is evidence of further delay. After Truman's order, Oppenheimer never publicly opposed the H-bomb. But other scientists did. Twelve top physicists signed a statement that said: "We believe that no nation has the right to use such a bomb, no matter how righteous its cause." It is a fact that Teller had great difficulty recruiting scientists in the year after the President's order...
...book presents Teller as the father of the hydrogen bomb. He broke the almost solid front of scientists who were opposing an all-out effort in the fall of 1949; in 1951 he had the "flash of genius" without which the bomb could not have been made...
...make the droppable H-bomb. The book credits his Livermore laboratory with sparking Los Alamos by "competition," but the "more mature" group of scientists at Los Alamos made the bomb-finally...
...strongest attacks came from Dr. Norris Bradbury, since 1945 head of the Los Alamos laboratories. Resenting the Shepley-Blair charge that Los Alamos had "dragged its feet" on thermonuclear development, Bradbury said that this work from 1946 on was pursued with "the maximum appropriate emphasis," and that the bomb was in fact produced probably as fast as it could have been. Does this mean that the whole Washington struggle described by Shepley and Blair was nonexistent or irrelevant? Or that the Washington struggle was to decide whether to change the appropriate emphasis? Certainly. Oppenheimer, Teller and other participants...