Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...here in Manhattan during any working week and asked for TIME'S Science editor, chances are you would find him out. Of all TIME'S editors, he comes closest to having his office in his hat-and his hat has hardly been off his head since The Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima...
...news of it was announced on Monday, TIME'S press day. In the next issue, Jonathan Norton Leonard was advised by his managing editor, a special Atomic Age section (TIME, Aug. 20, 1945) would try to tell the significance of the atomic bomb and Science's share of it would be to explain "how it works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved...
...late Isaac Alzamora, onetime vice president and foreign minister of Peru) and the father of a young son named Jonathan, Leonard is the owner of a growing stack of trophies. His prize, a packet of lead-wrapped fragments of fused soil from the crater of the first atomic bomb explosion in New Mexico, reposes in a Manhattan safe deposit box together with some government bonds. Planning to visit the vault some day with a Geiger counter to see whether the fragments are still radioactive, Leonard is prepared for anything - even the possibility of seeing remnants of his bonds...
...Robert Oppenhelmer '26, Director of Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, N. J. and former Director of the Santa Fe, N. M. laboratory that perfected the atomic bomb. Doctor of Science, Citation: "Brilliant director of the scientists and engineers who made a bomb from nuclear fuels; the expert behind the plan for the international control of atomic energy...
...horrors of atomic and bacteriological warfare have largely faded from the public mind in recent months. People were completely fed up with atomic terrors in the months that followed Hiroshima. The affairs of the world move too swiftly for even such a sensation as the atom bomb to be more than a super seven days' wonder. But the members of the Universal Military Training Commission made it their business to learn everything they could about the possibilities of atomic war. Their statement, together with those secured from General Eisenhower and other army officers, put a new meaning into old hackneyed...