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Word: bombless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When U.S. nuclear sleuths, cruising in airplanes off the coast of northeast Asia, pick up radioactive dust from Soviet bomb tests, they give out no information whatever. Russian and British airborne atomic detectives are just as uncommunicative. But the Japanese, sitting innocently bombless between Soviet and U.S. test areas, can talk freely. Last week Dr. Yoshio Sugiura of the government's Meteorological Research Institute told a Kyoto meeting of the Japan Chemistry Society what he had deduced from "ashes of death" that fell in his own backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bomb Watchers | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 14, 1951 | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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