Word: a-bomb
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...staffers knew what was going on), traveling to Europe and around the U.S., collecting material, lining up writers. Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert E. Sherwood wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style...
...sites, and to squeeze enemy battalions into tight pockets where atomic weapons can destroy them. Atomic depth charges can be used to kill enemy submarines, but a U.S. Navy must first track down the subs. It will take a strong Air Force to protect the U.S. and carry the A-bomb to an enemy's industrial nerve centers...
...before it can count even 95 combat-ready groups. Just how far came out last week in testimony at a House Armed Services Committee hearing. There, prodded by the committee, an Air Force general confessed that the U.S. has exactly 147 giant, ten-engined 8-36s, the intercontinental A-bomb carrier which the Air Force ballyhoos as the nation's biggest deterrent to the Russians. Of the 147, only 87 are in condition to fly; the other 60 are squatting in factories, undergoing a $2,500,000 modernization job. New ones are rolling off production lines...
Since 1937 Harvard has owned one of the oldest cyclotrons in the world, housing it in the Gordon McKay Laboratory. However, in 1943 the Physics Department lost its machine to the US Army Engineers who carried it off to Los Alamos for research on the A-bomb. When it became apparent that the Army was not going to part with the antique, University physicists set about designing a bigger and better model...
Died. Dr. Takashi Nagai, 43, X-ray scientist, objective chronicler of A-bomb effects on himself and his townsmen; of chronic leukemia; in the one-room cabin he called "Love-Thy-Neighbor-as-Thyself-House" in Nagasaki, Japan. For years a hopeless invalid, given the last rites (he was a Roman Catholic) in 1948, he nonetheless kept on writing impassioned pleas for a peaceful, A-bombless world, moving descriptions of his devastated city's "society of spiritual bankrupts" (We of Nagasaki). Soon to be published: his final bequest to the world, Atomic Battleground Psychology...