Word: h
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case to friends at the Pentagon. When the detection system, set up at Strauss's urging, picked up radiation from the Soviet Union's first atomic explosion in September 1949, Strauss, proven man of scientific foresight, set off another minority campaign: the fight to get an H-bomb program started against the combined opposition of his fellow commissioners and the scientists of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, chaired by prestigious Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
Strauss cannot claim sole credit for finally persuading Harry Truman to issue the order, early in 1950, to get going on an H-bomb program. Playing equally important roles were Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and Connecticut's late Democratic Senator Brien McMahon. But without Strauss's lonely battling, the decision would have come much later, possibly too late. As it was, the U.S. tested its first H-bomb only nine months before the first Soviet H-bomb explosion...
Endless Rumble. Soon after President Truman announced his H-bomb decision, Lewis Strauss, his momentous fight won, resigned, to go back into the world of high finance as financial adviser to the Rockefellers. In June 1953, President Eisenhower tabbed Strauss (who had supported his longtime friend Bob Taft for the G.O.P. nomination) as AEC chairman...
Catholic University of America John H. Lawrence, physician, medical physicist, University of California, Berkeley Sc.D. Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Roman Catholic Pro-Secretary of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office LL.D...
...negotiators prepared to resume the suspended talks at Geneva, word leaked of a report submitted to President Eisenhower which concludes that U.S. seismologists have achieved considerable success. Though the report itself is still secret, one major improvement has been sacrificed by its inventors-Paul W. Pomeroy and George H. Sutton of Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory...