Word: atom
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...hunch that only the U.S. atom bomb deterred Joe Stalin from "the real...
...Impatience at the prospect of fighting a succession of small "brush fires," with an impulse to drop the atom bomb on Moscow. "Let's end it before it starts" was a phrase frequently heard...
...They could, I fear, outnumber us in the air," said Churchill, "by a far larger number of machines than Hitler ever had. We would also be subject to a bombardment by rocket-propelled and guided missiles-I am not speaking of atom bombs -incomparably more severe than anything we have endured or imagined ... We are more defenseless than we have ever been and I find this a terrible thought...
...this silence? wonders Dr. Louis N. Ridenour, dean of the Graduate School of the University of Illinois, in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Are radiological poisons ineffective? Or are they so deadly that atom-minded governments have smothered all mention of them under blanket security...
Manhattan's prudent bankers last week started work on a plan to preserve their records in the event of an atom bomb attack. They set up two committees to study the possibility of protecting account ledgers and other records by microfilming them each day, storing the film safely outside the city. With duplicate records intact, banks could thus move their offices to outlying areas, keep in touch with each other through a new clearinghouse, which would also be located outside the city. No plans have yet been made to remove the billions of dollars in securities, notes and valuables...