Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rations currently held in depots in U.S. and overseas by Army, Navy, Coast Guard and Marines against contingency of war. Despite international squabbling, I believe even military leaders will admit war is definitely no threat for a minimum of a year or two until other nations are in atom bomb production...
...medical and scientific experts agreed with him. Dr. Howard J. Curtis of Columbia University, one of the foremost researchers on the atom bomb, thought that an entirely new government agency should be created. And when Dr. Parran suggested that about ten years would be required to spend the $100,000,000, crusty Representative Matthew Mansfield ("Matt") Neely, co-author of the bill, exploded: "We have got to stop piddling around with cancer research. ... I don't care a cuss if the Public Health Service or Harvard College gets the money, if someone will just do what Roosevelt and Churchill...
...current London meetings of the Empire's prime ministers merely "consultations." And it had decided not to limit conversations to Empire subjects such as trade and defense, which Mr. King did not want to discuss. It had broadened the agenda to include the problems of the atom bomb and Germany, which Mr. King did want to discuss...
Sharing the floor with Shapley and other scientists, Senator Brien McMahen, chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee, will speak on "Legislative Control of the Atomic Bomb." The entire program, which includes a playlet on push button atomic warfare, will emphasize civilian use and control of atomic energy...
Sweden's atomic physicists were going about their business as if The Bomb had never poisoned their science. No Swedish G-men breathed down their necks. No military censors enforced silence. Uranium deposits were under Government control, but the Government, apparently, did not intend to keep them out of the hands of free-researching scientists...