Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other discussions of the atomic bomb, see INTERNATIONAL and RADIO...
...twin pincers of the Southern organizing drives by the C.I.O. and the A.F.L. clamped on a major target. Moving through the rolling green hills of East Tennessee, both closed in hungrily on the 59,000-acre Oak Ridge atomic-bomb project...
From his flagship, westward bound for the Marshall Islands, the commander of the Bikini atom-bomb test broadcast to the U.S.: "Another Operation Crossroads is about to be executed by the Columbia Broadcasting System in ... the Library of Congress. . . . Representative Americans . . . have gathered to consider with you the great crossroads to which the splitting of the atom has brought mankind. ... I think it will be of great importance. . . ." Thus Vice Admiral William H. P. Blandy last week introduced one of radio's greatest public-service programs...
Upper-Level Lowdown. He found a lot of confused, ignorant thinking about the bomb. "The facts were circulating freely in the upper intellectual level," he recalls, "but not getting through to the people." He set out to find a program formula that would get the facts through...
...Washington fireman asked: "Why don't we find a defense against the atomic bomb?" He got his answer from Air Forces General George C. Kenney: "There just isn't any adequate defense against atomic attack...