Word: lapp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Physicist Ralph E. Lapp describes the radioactive aftereffects of the U.S. H-bomb tests in the Pacific. Dr. Lapp figures that a is-megaton H-bomb exploded near the ground will make an area of 4,000 square miles, mostly downwind, so radioactive that all people in it will get a "serious to lethal dose" in the first day alone. If they cannot evacuate, they will get more. Dr. Lapp believes that the explosion of 50 superbombs could blanket the entire northeastern U.S. "in a serious to lethal radioactive...
...American Week (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS) was a more uneven offering. Eric Sevareid started in major-league fashion with diagrammed displays of what would happen to big cities of the U.S. if they were targets of the H-bomb, and followed with filmed quotes from Physicist Ralph Lapp ("Let's have the facts given to the public") and ex-Diplomat George Kennan. But anticlimax followed with a "human interest" look at baseball and a too-long digression into the progress of the Wisconsin movement to vote the recall of Senator McCarthy. Sevareid announced that "I expect to use some...
Speaking in Buffalo, Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, director of the Nuclear Science Service, blasted the deterrent theory as a doctrine of "peace through mutual terror." Instead of assuring peace, said Lapp, possession of retaliatory atomic-thermonuclear weapons by both sides will create an "utterly unstable" situation in which one side or the other might attempt to strike a devastating first blow. Therefore, the nation needs both "sword and shield." An effective defense system against atomic-thermonuclear attack is possible, Lapp insisted, "if we really give our scientists their heads." But would the U.S. public be willing...
...scientist after the latter's wife and assistant, who have escaped with secret parts of his electronic invention. Just in time for the fadeout, the fugitives are conveniently buried in an avalanche. This leaves the scientist free to pursue his invention-as well as a beautiful Lapp girl, who has been getting warm glances from him during the trek over the frozen tundra...
...roundup itself took place in an enclosure in the midst of a thick forest. The reindeer run around in frightened herds and the Lapps walk among them, trying not to get trampled and swinging their lassos . . . The most important thing at the roundup is jaloviina, which is a mixture of brandy and alcohol distilled from wood. But the Lapps also like foreign firewaters. I just happened to have with me a bottle of Scotch. My interpreter foolishly mentioned this fact, and we were presently informed that it would be a nice gesture if we offered a drink to the Lapp...