Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Authorized the Navy to sacrifice 77 ships, 33 of them combat vessels, as targets for next month's atomic-bomb tests at Bikini...
...restriction of dangerous work to ADA would not only simplify that body's inspection job, but would give a clear warning if any nation encroached on ADA's field. ADA's supply of raw material and fissionable output suitable for bombs would be strategically distributed, so that no one nation could gain an advantage by seizing ADA's supplies and installations within its own borders. The Acheson planners concluded that it would be almost impossible for any nation to hide a complete bomb-making process from ore mine to finished weapon, or even to "re-nature...
Then Minister Howe dropped his own private bomb. Said he: three pounds of fissionable material would obliterate Ottawa (pop. 215,000). With no argument all parties supported the bill...
...Army's A-bomb man, plush-bottomed, stuffy Major General Leslie R. Groves, announced that he wanted the reporters at Operation Crossroads "locked up on the press ship, taken out to a certain point, write what they can see of the explosion, and then send them back home." The Navy said it wanted the Bikini tests treated like "the story of the year, maybe of the decade, and possibly of a lifetime." By last week it was plain that the Navy (and the press...
...Drop from 15 or 20 miles away, will probably not get their best stories until their ships move in close to look at the devastation later. Of the 169 newsmen converging on Bikini, only three reporters and a half-dozen photographers will actually fly over the target when the bomb run is made. But all correspondents had been investigated, shot full of injections, and issued enough instructions for an invasion. Some methodical Navy men had even made every newsman sign a document waiving right to any invention he might think up as a result of watching ,the bomb test...