Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shattering impact of the atomic bomb on the political sensitivities of the world was accompanied by lesser waves of awareness that the men involved with the bomb had become legislators of a tremendous share of the future. Of these, Conant, because of the newsworthiness of his Harvard office and previous achievements as a chemist, has been given the greatest attention. This play in the press and radio is well merited, for he took a vital role in the project that began in 1940 and reached a climax at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...position of any one man through the maze of reorganization endured by the Office of Scientific Research and Development and its atomic-energy division, the National Defense Research Committee, would require charts, slide-rules and an intimate knowledge of Washington whimsy. In the case of the men behind the bomb, such a study would only give the diagrammatic relation of man to man and department to subdivision. It would not, for instance, lend itself to an accurate appraisal of Conant's utility as talent scout and supervisor of this talent in the wide area taken in by the Manhattan District...
Many jittery readers, wondered whether the Bikini atomic-bomb test had been given a secret preview. Answer: a definite no. It would take many times 20,000 tons of TNT (the equivalent of the atomic bomb to be dropped at Bikini) to match the earthquake in the Aleutian Deep...
...preface Miss Bowen remarks that the stories are "disjected snapshots-snapshots taken from close up," or "studies of climate, war-climate, and of the strange growths it raised. . . . These are between-time stories-mostly reactions from, or intermissions between, major events. They show a leveled-down time, when a bomb on your house was as inexpedient, but not more abnormal than, a cold in your head...
...lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...