Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Research and Development Board, Killian was named to succeed him. "We must continue," he said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into invincible battalions. We must again be able to beat the enemy to the draw as we did in developing the atomic bomb. Our schools of science and engineering, if they are strong, are a powerful fleet-in-being, a striking force that can be thrown instantly into action if needed...
...very particular sense, the menacing Russian advance was no surprise to Edward Teller, 49, the rumpled, shaggy-browed, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, the "father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians...
...addition, he serves on the AEC's General Advisory Committee and the Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board, carries on his own strenuous public education campaign in media as far afield from pure science as the This Week Sunday supplement. Main topics: the survival value of underground bomb shelters, the need for continued nuclear-weapons tests, and, above all, the urgency of keeping ahead of Russia in science...
...Hungarian gusto. But a damaged constitution has not damped his crusader's fervor. The late great Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi once said to him, with affectionate exasperation: "In my acquaintance, you are the only monomaniac with several manias." Princeton Physicist John Wheeler, who worked on both the A-bomb and the H-bomb, put it more truly. The essence of Teller's character, Wheeler said recently, is that he "cares very much...
...annual meeting of the Atomic Industrial Forum in Manhattan's Plaza hotel last week, the Atomic Energy Commission hit the uranium business with a hydrogen bomb. Said AEC's Raw Materials Chief Jesse Johnson: "We have arrived at the point where it is no longer in the interest of the Government to expand production of uranium concentrate...