Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atomic Shield. "If we are to form a United States of Europe, or whatever name it may take, we must begin now. In these present days we dwell strangely and precariously under the shield, and I will even say protection, of the atomic bomb. The atomic bomb is still only in the hands of a state and nation which we know will never use it except in the cause of right and freedom. But it may very well be that in a few years this awful agency of destruction will be widespread and the catastrophe following from...
...also produced by the controlled chain reaction in a uranium pile or atomic power plant. The reaction itself generates powerful gamma rays and floods of neutrons. The uranium disintegrates, leaving a residue of highly active fission products. The neutrons, wandering through the pile, the cooling system and the concrete shield, stir up radioactivity. The pile may become "poisoned," and everything from it, or in contact with it, must be shunned like death...
Scientists are working hard to find some light-weight shield to replace the masses of lead, concrete or water they use at present around their "bad-acting" apparatus. A composite shield may prove useful; but it too will be massive and costly. No "magic shield" is in sight...
...Army was demobilizing, the Red press was not. On the fifth anniversary of the Nazi invasion, editorialists proclaimed that the Red Army was the world's "mightiest and "toughest," whose "new and important task" was to shield the Soviet people against threatening fascist crusades. Historian Eugene Tarle, who jumps higher for his fish than any other Soviet-trained seal, declared in Red Star that such crusades were even now being plotted by U.S. reactionaries who were trying to crush the U.S. working class as a preliminary to the imposition of a "Pax Americana" on the world...
...Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...