Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...release this valuable information, because: 1) Sam is very touchy on the subject and likes people to think he comes from an austere, strait-laced family; and 2) the Marx Brothers don't want it to get around that a second cousin of theirs is concealing atomic bomb secrets in his desk. . . . I think the general public should be correctly informed if another world war is to be averted...
...three days last week, when the international clouds seemed darkest, Harry Truman was convinced that the atomic bomb tests at Bikini should be canceled...
Then the Senator defined "the most dangerous of issues" which divides the Big Three-"the almighty Bomb [held] like a Damoclean sword over the heads of Russia and the rest of the world." His novel proposal: let the U.S., Canada and Britain destroy every atom bomb, smash every facility for making another. "Then we could go into the court of this conference with the cleanest of hands...
Payson S. Wild, Jr., professor of Government, called international security the key to atomic bomb control in forum on the subject of "Control in a forum on the subject of "Control of Atomic Energy" at the New Lecture Hall Wednesday night. Victor Weisskopf, professor of Physics at M.I.T., and Miss Lisa Sergio, radio commentator for the Blue Network, also spoke. The forum was sponsored by the American Association of Scientific Workers (Boston and Cambridge Branch), the Cambridge Association of Scientists, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters...
...would be utter folly to attempt to protect the United States against attack with atomic weapons by 'keeping the secret of the atomic bomb,'" Mather stated. "Almost all the fundamental scientific principles pertaining to nuclear fission were known to physicists of all countries in 1939. The only secrets of the atomic bomb pertain to the techniques of detonation and the specifications of machinery and apparatus...