Word: fuses
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...Iranian fuse was sputtering nearer & nearer to the powder...
Ever since his sister died four years ago, James Nelson Gernhart had talked of nothing but death and funerals. "Old Jim" had blown a fuse at the way his relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style...
...pickups from Fuchs and from Alfred Dean Slack (now serving 15 years for espionage), who gave Gold a sample of a new explosive called RDX. The Rosenbergs apparently fed Yakovlev the data collected from Morton Sobell, who worked in radar and electronics, while Rosenberg himself stole the proximity fuse by the simple expedient of putting one in his briefcase at the Emerson Radio Corp...
...jury that judged them spent seven hours and 42 minutes deliberating the sordid record of how the A-bomb-and such other secrets as the proximity fuse-were handed over to the Kremlin. To help them decide, the jurors had the testimony of sallow, penitent Harry Gold, a Philadelphia biochemist now serving 30 years because he was a courier for the atomic spy ring, and David Greenglass, a former Los Alamos technician who testified not only to his own but also to his sister's and his wife's parts in the espionage operations...
Greenglass testified that Defendant Julius Rosenberg did not confine his interest to the atomic bomb. Julius, he said, personally stole the secret proximity fuse when he was working for the Emerson Radio Corp. "He took it out in the briefcase he brought his lunch in and gave it to the Russians," Greenglass explained...