Word: thermonuclear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After looking at the 28-minute television film, Operation Ivy, last week, the U.S. public could hardly be blamed for feeling that it had been given too slight a review of the first full-scale thermonuclear explosion and too much of sonorous background music, theatrical hokum and bureaucratic lens-hogging. The film, released 17 months after the event (just in time to heighten world apprehension abroad over last month's two bigger explosions), was subject to massive and at times confusing cutting in the name of security. But even so, it might, as some of its scenes dramatically demonstrated...
...Somehow, it seemed appropriate that Sir Winston Churchill-born in the age of lance-bearing cavalrymen, a captain of two world wars, the statesman who first recognized the A-bomb as the free world's chief deterrent to Communist aggression-should recite the perils and promises of the thermonuclear...
...increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
Last week the Congress also: ¶ Decided, among House Republicans, to call pending wiretapping legislation the "Anti-Traitor bill." ¶ Voted, in the House Appropriations Committee, to spend a record $1,060,968,000 for atomic and thermonuclear weapons development in fiscal 1955, but cut some $152 million from other budget requests made by the Atomic Energy Commission...