Word: atomizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Within hours after President Truman's first statement on possible use of the atom bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the press, public and politicians of all Europe suddenly awoke to the possibility that World War III might be upon them. In Britain the reaction was especially strong...
Official Ottawa's first reaction to the crisis was one of silence. Later, after a cabinet meeting, External Affairs Boss Mike Pearson warned against use of the atom bomb by U.S. decision alone. Said Pearson: "Before a decision of such immense and awful consequence . . . there should surely be consultation . . . with the governments concerned. One of those would be the Canadian government...
...Dean Rusk, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. But by then the Latin American mood seemed to have leveled off into a kind of lethargic apprehension. A cross-country auto race commanded bigger headlines in Argentina than President Truman's statement on the use of the atom bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Brazilians went back to their futebol games. Korea still seemed very far away. There was no reason to doubt that in any crisis Latin America would be behind the U.S. But the latinos still had to learn what the U.S. would do in Asia before they...
...Eugene Gardner, a brilliant young nuclear physicist, was working in 1942 at Berkeley, Calif, with the Manhattan (atom bomb) Project. His secret work required him to drill a hole in an electrode made of beryllium oxide. Out of the hole a fine dust rose, and 29-year-old Gardner inhaled it. He did not know, nor did anyone know at the time, that the beryllium in the dust was a slow, implacable poison...
Young Republicans will meet at 8 p.m. tonight in the Winthrop Junior Common Room to recommend universal military service and atom bomb policy for adoption by similar college clubs throughout the country...