Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators took on an air of desperation and despair. "We will be making the mistake of our lives," cried Missouri's Forrest Donnell. Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry raised an atomic cloud over the issue: "A treaty supersedes a law. Are we committing ourselves ... to share the atomic bomb?" Cried Ohio's Robert Taft: "It is not a peace program, it is a war program...
Last week, on the fourth anniversary of the explosion of the first atomic bomb, reporters were being shown around the crater at "Trinity," birthplace of the Atomic Age. The crater, still surrounded by a high wire fence, is still radioactive. A man lying down in it for only a few hours would get all the radiation he could safely absorb in a week...
...vegetation. Occasionally, fragments glitter in the sun. The crater is still a shallow, rimless saucer pressed down into the earth by the force of the explosion. In it may be seen a few twisted bits of metal and the reinforced concrete foundations of the tall steel tower that the bomb blew away as vapor...
Help at Yalta. When somebody has to find out whether the Nazis have made an atom bomb, Lanny naturally takes over the interrogation of captured scientists. Satisfied that the Nazis are not even close, he prepares a report for the Boss ("Roosevelt would get one through the Army, of course, but he would be more interested in the statement of a man whom he knew and trusted...
...worrying about the President's health. After the Boss dies, there is still plenty to do: a trip to Europe to wheedle Göring into revealing the hiding place of the priceless collections of stolen art; a dash back to the U.S. to watch the first atom bomb billow up in the New Mexico sky; a mission to Nürnberg to help convict the war criminals...