Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...urban dream of a little place in the country, the New York Times found in a survey, has been replaced by a more urgent "nightmare of atom bombs falling on cities." The nightmare, encouraged by real-estate promoters and advertising copywriters, has increased sales of rural properties-estates, farms, stores and other small businesses 50 miles or more from big cities-by as much...
...blimp-nosed craft, her six propellers glinting in the sun, climbed out westward from her Texas base, on past the sandy fringes of California, high over the glazed emptiness of the Pacific; then her navigator pointed her northward to the tip of the Aleutians. She did not have an atom bomb aboard, but she had its equivalent weight...
...native New Yorker of Russian descent, Sobell went to C.C.N.Y., where he became a classmate and close friend of Julius Rosenberg, accused of being a top spy in the atom ring (TIME, July 31). Engineer Sobell worked on top-secret U.S. radar and electronic devices for the Navy from 1942 to 1947, was working on more top-secret Government devices at Manhattan's Reeves Instrument Orp. until his sudden trip south. He was described by a fellow employee at Reeves as "the genius type," a man who could carry plenty of complex data in his head. Sobell...
...breathing space, thought Churchill, was provided by American superiority in atom bombs. If, while that superiority lasts, "we can create a trustworthy system of defense ... we shall at least have removed the most obvious temptation to those who seek to impose their will by force upon the free democracies." Churchill made it clear that Western Europe's defense must include West Germany...
...other hand, Dr. Emil Fuchs, Leipzig professor of religion and father of British Atom Bomb Spy Klaus Fuchs, got off a telegram to the U.N. explaining that everything would be hunky dory if the West would just stop disagreeing with Russia...