Word: superbombers
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...month, carried an international thunderclap. To the high-patrolling U.S. bombers, which scooped up samples of its fine dust, the radioactivity was obvious evidence of some kind of Russian atomic blast. To the scientists who analyzed the samplings, it was clear proof that the Russians had exploded a thermonuclear superbomb, a remarkably exact duplicate of the U.S.'s own. To the political leaders of the U.S., the air mass was one more ominous sign that the time was close when the Russians might have enough atomic strength to destroy the U.S. power of resistance or retaliation...
...Accordingly, I have directed the Atomic Energy Commission to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb. Like all other work in the field of atomic weapons, it is being and will be carried forward on a basis consistent with the over-all objectives of our program for peace and security...
While Senator Johnson was before the television camera, still arguing for tighter security, he also gave to the world several other U.S. secrets:1) that U.S. scientists, in trying to make a superbomb, have already made one six times as powerful as the Nagasaki "Model T"; 2) that the U.S. goal is a bomb 1,000 times as powerful; 3) that the present effort is to "find some way of detonating a bomb before the fellow that wants to drop it can detonate...
...heaviest losses in Europe's art museum had been architectural. Considering the hail of shot & shell, bomb and superbomb that pocked the face of Europe for six years, the treasures still surviving were a lot to be thankful for. But much of the best in Western civilization had been blown apart, and what was gone was irreplaceable...
First Yank Into Tokyo (RKO-Radio) might well be subtitled First Atomic Bomb Thriller Out of Hollywood. It was originally a stock B potboiler about a vague "superbomb," just ready to be picked off the RKO assembly line when news of the atomic bomb was announced. By snipping in a quick scene in a Washington office and pasting on the newsreel clip of the first practice explosion in New Mexico, RKO beats everyone else to the neighborhood houses...