Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elementary Natural Science courses, with few exceptions, do not follow these principles. The first four, dealing with the physical sciences, attempt to go from Ptolemy to the atomic bomb, broadly surveying the elementary facts of physics, chemistry, and astronomy. Because so much ground is covered, these facts are frequently presented to novice scientists as dogma, with little discussion of the thought that preceded them. As a result, history serves more as a humanistic garnishing than as a means for the illumination of concepts. Especially in atomic physics, the Gen. Ed. courses over-simplify so much that the student may come...
...every student wants to know how the H bomb works. To leave time enough for adequate development of physical and chemical principles, the astronomy should be pared from the courses designed for novices. Descriptive astronomy is common knowledge in today's world of popularized science, and the valuable lessons from the history of astronomy can be found in man's first attempts to understand physics or chemistry...
...professors stated last night that during their association with J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 on the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, N.M., they "had no reason at any time" to doubt the famed physicist's loyalty to his country...
...primary charges brought against Oppenheimer is that he opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb...
...Manhattan's Spanish-language daily La Prensa broke the release date of an H-bomb picture by mistake. A staffer misread the date, got his paper a clear beat...