Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When, in 1949, † AECommissioner Lewis Strauss* proposed a vigorous attempt to build an H-bomb (after the Russians exploded their first A-bomb), "Dr. Oppenheimer strongly opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb on moral grounds, on grounds that it was not politically desirable," as well as because the H-bomb program would be a drain on the orderly development of the fission bomb program. Said the report: "Until the late spring of 1951, he questioned the feasibility of the hydrogen bomb efforts then in progress...
...testimony to the board, Oppenheimer insisted that he had opposed only a "crash program" of H-bomb production in 1949. Said the board, after digging through documentary evidence: "The board does not believe that Dr. Oppenheimer was entirely candid . . . in attempting to establish this impression. The record reflects that Dr. Oppenheimer [then] expressed his opinion in writing: 'The superbomb should never be produced...
...exploded its first hydrogen bomb in November 1952; Russia, in August 1953. As a matter of actual fact (which neither Dr. Oppenheimer nor any other physicist could have predicted), H-bomb development proved to be no strain on the fission bomb program...
...working, organization Democrat, Morgan summed up his view of the Oppenheimer case: "This is not small peanuts. It is bigger than Dr. Oppenheimer, and it is bigger than the Eisenhower Administration . . . The question is whether you are going to have one security system for the scientist who built a bomb and another for the chauffeur who drives a Congressman around Washington...
Edward Teller, chief architect of the H-bomb . . . . . . . . . . . . Sc.D...