Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judgment of the special board headed by onetime Army Secretary Gordon Gray. But there were two important differences. Where the Gray board had commended Oppenheimer's discretion with secret data, the AEC majority was significantly silent. Where the Gray board criticized Oppenheimer's opposition to H-bomb development, the commissioners held that the physicist's policy opinions are not relevant to his security status...
Thus, the AEC acted to silence the criticism that Oppenheimer had been punished because he was not "enthusiastic" about the H-bomb. Like the Gray board, the AEC gave great weight to Dr. Oppenheimer's untruthfulness about security matters, e.g., his admitted lies about the approach made to him by Communist-tainted Haakon Chevalier, who told him that a mutual acquaintance had a way of getting information to the Communists...
Since 1945 the atomic bomb has hung over their heads. Thermonuclear bombs intensify a fear that never leaves any British subject for long. Airmen agree that eight or ten H-bombs, dropped on a well-planned pattern, would bring utter destruction...
...golden years for M.I.T. He completed the great George Eastman Research Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry, set up the Graduate School, reorganized the undergraduate course to give M.I.T.'s science and engineering students a better grounding in the liberal arts. During the war, he helped mastermind the atomic bomb project, saw M.I.T. and Harvard turn Cambridge, Mass, into the radar center of the world...
Guareschi accused De Gasperi of having urged the Allies during World War II to bomb Rome...