Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts published or still secret had come from a giant mechanism of men and machines, designed specifically to detect an atomic explosion anywhere in the world. When Intelligence got a tip that the Russians had solved the atomic riddle, the mechanism swung into action...
...roads-which evokes the necessity of large-scale blasting . . . It is possible that this might draw attention beyond the confines of the Soviet Union." As for atomic energy, added Tass casually, Vyacheslav Molotov had announced back in 1947, when he was still Foreign Minister, that Russia had mastered its secret...
...again began sharpening their wits to give money-laden visitors a big welcome. One private enterpriser set up a stall at the foot of St. Peter's steps to peddle rosaries, postcards, photographs. For well-heeled tourists he would produce, as if allowing a privileged glimpse of a secret treasure, a varied collection of sacred cameos about which the only thing exceptional was the outrageous price. Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings. A third entrepreneur arrived with a collection of black cloaks over his arm for renting...
There was no "atomic secret." The basic fact that uranium atoms can be made to split in two, and release a massive jolt of energy, had been common scientific knowledge since 1939. The famed Smyth Report (A General Account of the Development of Methods of Using Atomic Energy for Military Purposes), which told how to go about making an atomic bomb was published by the U.S. War Department in August 1945. But even without the Smyth Report, U.S. scientists warned it was only a matter of time until some foreign nation, i.e., the U.S.S.R., would build a bomb...
From the appearance of this article two years ago until the whole matter burst into the headlines on April 13, 1949, the controversy was kept a secret by Father Feeney and other Catholic officials. Recently, however, the facts of the intervening period have become known...