Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case, the split atom is here to stay. Let us accept it with some fear and trembling, but let us also accept it with all the faith we can muster in man's intelligent capacity and desire to harness it beneficently, as he has electricity...
...pictures back to his office. U.S. and Jap reporters elbowed each other at press conferences. Jap reporters obligingly gave out interviews, and in turn interviewed U.S. newsmen. (Didn't they agree that the bombing of Japanese cities was horrible?) The U.P. came up with an eyewitness description of atom-bombed Hiroshima from its onetime Tokyo office manager, Honolulu-born Leslie Nakashima, who went there to look up his mother. Wrote he: "I was dumfounded at the destruction before me. The center of the city . . . was razed and there was a sweeping view to the foot of the mountains...
...Development of hydrogen peroxide as a high-powered fuel. Hydrogen peroxide, an unstable compound (H2O2), breaks down (into water-H20-and an atom of oxygen) with a large release of energy. The Germans used hydrogen peroxide in launching their V-1 and V-2 missiles, and were adapting it, with apparently promising results, to naval uses...
Smash Hit. In Los Angeles, the Burbank Burlesque Theater advertised "atom-bomb dancers...
...days after the Japs finally said "Uncle!," Collier's came out with a Quentin Reynolds "authoritative picture" of how hard the invasion of Japan was going to be. In twelve simultaneous newspaper ads Collier's tried to cover its blushes: "The atom bomb, forecast by Collier's five years back, caught Collier's, as well as the Japs, by surprise...