Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consider our feelings if matters were reversed-Russia holding the secret, producing a daily increasing number of atomic bombs . . . announcing officially that this "Damoclean sword" would be kept especially from the U.S., etc. All this would throw our country into a state of alarm which would make the effect of the Pearl Harbor attack seem like a W.C.T.U. picnic. . . . There would be no reconversion- only armament. We would insist that Russia either share the secret or "destroy every atomic bomb, smash every facility for making another," before a basis of unity could be established and the U.N. fulfill its proper...
...Churchill paints the story of the "Red Bear" very gloomily, and there is no doubt that it is. But a weapon more powerful than any atomic bomb are millions of despairing hearts-hearts of the peoples of all the nations of the world who had hoped 'that true democracy would be the fruit of this terrible struggle, and not more power politics...
...materials capable of producing an atomic chain reaction; of property containing source materials. It would be authorized to: produce fissionable material with its own facilities or make contracts for production; mine and refine supplies; distribute fissionable materials and byproducts; and under the direction of the President produce atomic bombs, bomb parts...
...Great Experiment. In his Tokyo headquarters, a palatial oasis of paneled halls, cut-flower arrangements, kimonoed servants and monogrammed silverware, set in a desert of bomb-&-fire rubble, General Douglas MacArthur watched his wards at work. "Satisfactory," was his pronouncement on the election...
Perfumes of all kinds sold heavily everywhere. Parfums Weil Paris Co. neatly fell into the effervescent mood of shoppers by introducing a new scent called "GriGri." It was designed to "replace . . . the blockbuster and the robot bomb" with "a dash of the inconsequential...