Word: atomically
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case of atomic warfare with Russia (which will come just as soon as Russia has a good stock of atom bombs), Washington, D.C. will be the safest place in this country . . . Stalin is no fool; with the one exception of Winston Churchill, he is the smartest man in the world today. He knows he cannot trust his closest associates in the Kremlin, but that he can depend on plenty of assistance from [Washington...
...best propaganda for peace I have seen. Not that Stalin and his confreres are not already aware of these facts, but . . . TIME'S Sept. 4 issue will be read avidly by one and all. Without question, General LeMay and his B-36s and our atom bombs are the principal deterrent keeping Russia from direct war. Which means that if the Soviets have the atom bomb ... in finished and deliverable condition . . . they have mighty...
...More Denial. The present-day effectiveness of "military security" (e.g., during construction of the atom bomb) has made the public suspicious of all official denials. What sort of new, fantastic wonders may be concealed behind the denials? Modern air engines (turbojets, ramjets, rockets) are powerful enough to make almost anything fly. Disc-shaped helicopters with ramjets on their rotor edges are not impossible. They are not midget-manned space ships but their test flights might have provided a base for flying saucer reports...
Last week Canada's finest private atom bomb shelter was finished. Although it looked like a simple mound of concrete in Mrs. MacDonald's backyard (see cut), the roof was steel-reinforced and 32 inches thick. Inside, the shelter was 8 by 4 by 6 ft., had six-inch walls and floors of waterproof concrete, was equipped with a food storage locker, oxygen tanks, electric lights. The underground entrance had a 30-inch, lead-lined door fitted with a oneway safety valve to equalize the interior air pressure after a bomb blast...
...Analyst Elmer Davis projected some of the effects of World War No. 9: "Stalin and Molotov are dead, but [Andrei] Vishinsky is getting rich out of his memoirs being published in several American newspapers-his theme being, of course, 'I Was Always Secretly a Menshevik.' " The Russian atom bomb meant for the Gary, Ind. steel mills "was dropped by grave mischance right on the Chicago Tribune Tower . . . Colonel Robert R. McCormick, warned in time, was safe in his underground shelter; but he emerged too soon, in confidence that no European radiations could harm the hero of Cantigny...