Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joan Hinton, now 33, was an attractive blonde prep-school girl, interested in horses and sports. At the University of Chicago she became a physicist. She was a junior scientific assistant at Los Alamos when the first atomic bomb was exploded; she and her mother spent happy weeks together in the rough outdoors of Dr. Robert Oppenheimer's Perro Caliente ranch, although Oppenheimer cabled last week that he did not know them well. By her own account, "something started to stir" in Joan Hinton when the first A-bombs were dropped. "Hiroshima," she scribbled in a frenzied letter...
...imagine in outline the first few weeks of a war under conditions about which we did not know when this session commenced . . . would, I am sure, convince honorable gentlemen of the obsolescence of the base . . ." In other words, what Winston Churchill had learned about the H-bomb on his trip to Washington had changed his mind...
...Britain, France and Canada met privately in London with representatives of Russia, headed by Jacob Malik of veto fame. The hope was that, freed of the necessity to strike postures in public, they might find some solution to the problem that besets all mankind: fear of H-bomb destruction...
...same old Soviet plan which would in effect disarm the West without disarming Soviet Russia. "The U.S. is prepared to go ahead with any discussion or negotiations which give any promise whatever," said Patterson. "But the U.S.S.R. responds to everything we say with its simple nostrum: 'Ban the bomb; trust us Russians...
...Kind of H-Bomb. Of the many new experimental treatments for cancer described at the congress, the most promising was a "desexed" hormone used by Urologist Charles B. Huggins of the University of Chicago. He reported that he had stripped the hydrogen atom from the sex-hormone molecule, thus ridding it of the power to masculinize or feminize, then administered it to women with advanced breast cancer. The sexless hormones, Huggins hopes, can block the normal female hormones that stimulate breast cancer...