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Through an oversight, Perkins said, the agreement was not made public. "We were crossing our bridges when we came to them, although looking back on it, it might have been handier to say something about it at the time," Perkins added...
...atom bombs of World War II were bulky monsters weighing close to five tons. The B295 that atom-bombed Japan carried only one on each mission. But atom bombs have been getting smaller and handier. The Army's description last week of its atomic gun gives an idea of how small a modern atom bomb...
...system, which originated from the fact that humans have ten fingers. They cannot assume that the Neighbors have ten fingers-or any fingers at all, for that matter. But some "rank system" is needed, so he suggests basing earth's numbers not on ten but twelve, which is handier mathematically, anyhow...
There has been atomic progress of another sort: toward handier, "tactical" nuclear explosives, perhaps the much-desired atomic artillery shells...
Ulbricht & Co. predict that they will oust 25% of the party's functionaries, 10% of its rank & file members, be left with a tighter, handier Communist Party. But if Stalin knew what he was talking about, the saddle was still likely...