Word: coding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through the Jap code (which the U.S. had in its pocket before Pearl Harbor), President Franklin Roosevelt and the Washington high command knew, hours before the attack, that Japan was breaking off negotiations, that this meant a surprise attack somewhere in the Pacific...
...house was the first human habitation to be blasted by the terrible force of exploding atoms. Ten thousand yards from the test site are the two low, heavy-timbered buildings, banked to the roof with earth, which housed the bomb-exploding generator and observation instruments (known in atom-scientist code as "Beta" and "Ten Thousand"). Nearby stand two white-painted Sherman tanks used to examine the area immediately after the explosion-airtight and lead-lined to protect the crews from radiation-hung with mysterious instruments which the Army's cautious scientists still refuse to explain...
...intelligence-the Japanese Consul sent Tokyo detailed reports of naval and military activities at Pearl Harbor, transmitting them in code over regular commercial cable lines. The messages were safe from the scrutiny of U.S. officials because the FBI was prevented by "Government regulations" from tapping cables...
Minister Leland Harrison in Bern, and then in proper code (11 hours late...
...maintain vital transportation services. Radio Tokyo broadcast that the "general mobilization for production" would continue. In a joint statement the military and civilian authorities emphasized the old order that all Japanese "guilty of disquieting speech and behavior, also those spreading rumors" would be "strictly punished according to the military code...