Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Civil Defense Administration last week was planning to recommend to state governments to take down the familiar road signs that instruct civilians not to use highways in event of enemy attack. Reason: the signs, put up in the duck-and-hide days of the atomic bomb, do not make sense in the run-for-your-life hydrogen-bomb...
...statement to the AEC (TIME, June 14). He had been a "fellow traveler," an active Communist fronter from late 1936 until around 1942, but all that was behind him. He had been a loyal citizen, working hard for his Government ever since he went to work on the atomic bomb in 1942. To support their case, Oppenheimer's lawyers had called in an impressive list of character witnesses. Notable on the list were men who had worked above Oppenheimer, including some who had a measure of responsibility for what he did, and they expressed broad-gauge opinions. Among them...
Among other notable results: ¶ In the Sixth Congressional District (northeast of Berkeley), Democratic Representative Robert L. Condon was renominated, although he had been 1) barred from an atom-bomb test in Nevada last year by the Atomic Energy Commission as a "security risk," and 2) disowned by the Democratic National Committee...
...missing U.S. diplomat had disappeared behind the Iron Curtain. The fact, which was no secret to conscientious readers of the New York Times last week, was that Ambassador Thompson was hard at work in London conducting a behind-the-scenes effort with British experts to defuse a diplomatic time bomb-the problem of Trieste...
Assigned to the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington, Cheshire worked on the problems of dropping the first atom bomb. He watched the bombing of Nagasaki from an observation plane ("I remember thinking that it was dropped a little off target, but of course that didn't matter...