Word: programers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...bombs, but devoutly religious Lewis Strauss, a longtime president of New York's Congregation Emanu-El, is a man who opposed the decision to drop A-bombs on Japan in 1945, worked devotedly to promote the U.S.'s Atoms for Peace program, and says: "I look forward to the day when there won't be any military use [for atomic energy]. It may not come in my lifetime, but it will come...
University Marshal J. Hampden Robb '21 will officially open the program with the traditional words to the High Sheriff of Middlesex County, "Mr. Sheriff, pray us order." Howard W. Fitzpatrick, county sheriff, will strike the stage three times with his scabbard, saying, "The meeting will be in order...
...prayer, offered by the Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, will be followed by addresses by three students, Richard E. Rubenstein '59, Upton B. Brady '59, and H.O.J. Brown 3D. The awarding of degrees will come next on the program, and the singing of the Commencement Hymn and a benediction will conclude the morning segment...