Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Street of Dignity. To reach his automobile, Gromyko passed through a queue of nylon seekers in front of the grey Soviet Consulate on East 61st Street. (Gromyko knows that Americans talk about nylons much more than about the atomic bomb.) The Cadillac turned into the dignified but flabby reaches of Fifth Avenue as matrons, becalmed by $3 luncheons, heaved out into the 4 o'clock sunshine. At Tiffany's or Cartier's, where a brooch might cost almost as much as a light tank, men & women paused to glance at displays with a diluted, good-natured envy...
...proposal that the U.S. give away its present security as sole possessor of the bomb, the objection was that the only gain would be the world's transitory gratitude...
...cleaning woman could be let in, because the workers were busy at all hours and highly secret papers were strewn everywhere. The only decorations were cobwebs until one of the group, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Caltech physicist and former director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color...
...important part of the plan is that the Authority's plants for producing "dangerous" uranium or plutonium would, like the know-how of the bomb, ultimately be distributed with equality among all important nations. "The real protection," said the five, "will lie in the fact that if any nation seizes the plants or the stockpiles that are situated in its territory, other nations [besides receiving clear warning] will have similar facilities and materials situated within their own borders so that the act of seizure need not place them at a disadvantage...
...proposal that the U.S. give the atomic bomb to UNO, the objection was that, if the bombs and plants remained in the U.S. (were they could be seized in case of war), other nations could feel no more secure than at present. To proposals to control atomic bomb manufacture by international inspection, the objection was that, if inspection failed, the consequences would be fatal to all nations which had observed the rules...