Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rather surprised by the inference TIME drew [March 18] from the fact that people no longer talk about the atomic bomb. TIME seemed to believe that people had accepted and forgotten it, and had gone their merry ways, changing neither their modes nor philosophies of life...
...first few months after the news of the existence of the [atomic] bomb, I broached the subject to several people. My cousin said, "You'll never know what hit you," and changed the subject. My closest friend said, "What difference does it make?" and changed the subject...
Once, it was the gold brick. In Montreal last week it was the atom. Seven smooth swindlers dumped $500,000 worth of atom-bomb stock on scores of gullible Quebeckers. One investor, a Montreal physician, reportedly bit to the tune of $20,000. Since the atom bomb was top secret, the peddlers were mum about the way it was to be commercialized. But their fancy, engraved stock looked mighty pretty. A chunk of "deactivated bomb," a gear or two from an airplane motor, parts of a small lathe were more concrete come-ons. Provincial police, not impressed, arrested two atom...
Elliott Roosevelt made a couple of payments: 1) a $15 fine for speeding (65 m.p.h.) in East Fishkill, N.Y.; 2) his respects to the capabilities of his late father. "If my father had lived," said Elliott, "this whole atomic bomb problem would not exist. He believed in the United Nations." And if the U.S. had not ignored his father's advice, Elliott was certain, there would be no inflation or food problems...
...first time since 1940, U.S. physicists could talk about atomic fission without looking over their shoulders. The subject of The Bomb itself was taboo at the annual midwest meeting of the American Physical Society in Chicago; but there was plenty more for the atomic scientists to talk about...