Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Howard J. Hollister of Minneapolis, who lost three sons in the war, thought the best defense was keeping the atom bomb secret. Said Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Dr. Harold Urey: "There is no secret that we can keep for more than a few years. ... All we have exclusively now are merely . . . manufacturing processes...
Toolmaker & Poet. A college senior, a Chicago toolmaker named Edwin Dzingle, the tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the first bomb, a Texas farmer with a drawl as wide as the Panhandle, discussed the problem earnestly with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen...
...other opinions on the atomic bomb, see INTERNATIONAL; for action, NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...first peacetime victim of nuclear fission died last week. He was Dr. Louis Slotin of Winnipeg, Canada and the atom bomb laboratory at Los Alamos, New Mexico, the cause of his death-exposure to radiation-may become a familiar factor in the atomic...
...half days after the atomic bomb went off in the New Mexico desert last summer, the air over Maryland, 1,700 miles away, had nearly twice its normal radioactivity. The U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey noted a similar phenomenon at Tucson, Ariz. But the Eastman Kodak Co. was the first to trace, and announce, the actual spread of the deadly, dusty mushroom which sprouted above MacDonald's ranch that July...