Word: atomically
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...permanent. He began to skid. He skidded with Henry Wallace away to the far left. He became an apologist for Russia's foreign policy. He went abroad, called on Stalin, promptly urged that the U.S. advance Russia a $6 billion loan. He proposed that the U.S. "destroy every atom bomb we have" and all atomic facilities. He sometimes out-talked even Wallace in denunciation of the U.S.'s toughening foreign policy...
...hydrogen bomb's necessary ingredients (a principal one, Dr. Bacher implies) is tritium, the heavy form of hydrogen with one proton and two neutrons in its nucleus. Tritium must be made in a chain-reacting pile by a reaction that costs one free neutron for every atom of tritium produced. There are plenty of free neutrons in a pile, but they originate in fissioning atoms of uranium-235 and are normally used to form plutonium (for atom bombs) out of nonfissionable U-238. Each neutron that is used to form an atom of tritium means less plutonium...
Next to the H-bomb and the atom bomb, there are few more controversial, carefully guarded U.S. defense secrets than the weapons of chemical and bacteriological warfare. Such an eminent bacteriologist as Johns Hopkins University's Professor Perrin H. Long has dismissed the whole subject of germ warfare as "bunk" (TIME, April 10). But last week the Army Chemical Corps's Major General Anthony ("Nuts") McAuliffe, hero of Bastogne, gave the U.S. a quick peek behind the curtain of secrecy. Addressing a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Detroit, General McAuliffe hinted that the U.S. was hard...
With the coming of the atom bomb, the U.S. press found itself confronted with one of the gravest and most difficult jobs in its history. It had the prime duty of giving readers the best possible under standing of the atomic age and of the technical processes that had brought it about. On the other hand, it had the responsibility of not giving away any information that might be of value to the enemy...
...germs as a war weapon had been grossly exaggerated, he said, but "an active research program on biological war fare ... is being conducted in the interests of national defense." Last week in Baltimore, Bacteriologist Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, addressing doctors interested in civil defense against atom bombs, called bacteriological warfare "bunk." Scientific knowledge of the subject at the moment, he said, does not point to its use as a successful tactical weapon. Washington had no comment...