Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of the eastern states." Eastern Republicans, he snorted, are "fertile in expedients which was shown by the nomination of Wendell Willkie and Dewey, nominations made to prevent the election of a Republican President. . . . They think they can . . . nominate another renegade Westerner by scaring us with the atom bomb...
Hardly were the negatives dry when the motion pictures of Test Baker at Bikini were rushed to Paris' Paramount Theater. But peace conferees were too busy to bother with the atom bomb. Some 150 delegates saw the film-but they were minor functionaries and military attach...
Protection. Is there any defense against these subtle poisons? In the case of a bomb exploding on the ground or sea, the answer is probably no. People in the bombed area might survive the blast in deep underground shelters, but the air sucked into the ventilating systems would surely bring in radioactive particles. And in any event they could not venture above ground for some time without tons of shielding...
...Friendly Geiger Counter. Watchdog of the atomic age will be the Geiger counter, which registers even feeble radiation. Public-health officials may learn to carry them. Soldiers and diplomats, too, may find use for Geiger counters. When the Russians master atomic energy and explode their first test bomb in darkest Siberia, its radioactive by-products will sweep around the world in the upper atmosphere. Geiger counters will announce the news to every foreign office...
...advance showing of newsreel films of the awesome underwater explosion of Bomb No. 5 at Bikini...