CHRONOLOGY OF ATOM BOMB
THE MAP
By RICHARD HILL WILKINSON
(A Short Story)
Here are some of the high light:
in the
atom:
Jan.
sicists
met ts
international drama of the
26, 1939—United States phy-
learn of European experi
showing one of uranium
isotopes undergoes fission with re
lease of nuclear energy when bom-
barded
Dec.
taining
Staggs
with slow neutrons.
2, 1942—First self-main
atomic pile initiated a
Field Stadium,, Chicago.
JVy
16, 1945 — First atomic
bomb explosion in history set off
in New Mexico desert.
Aug. 6, 1945—First atom
used in warfare dropped on
shima, Japcr.
bo ml
Hiro.
Aug. 11, 1945
Second
bomb.
this time on Nagaski.
June 14, 1946—United Nations
Atomic Energy Commission holds
first meeting, hear plans of Ber
nard M. Baruch, American dele
gate, for international cc> trol.
July 11,
“Test Able,”
sion in air
similar to
shima blasts.
1946—United
Bikini atoll,
against target
Nagaski and
States
explo-
ships,
Hiro-
July 25, 1946
‘'Test
shallow underwater
Baker,”
explosion
demanding retention of veto
:ase of enforcement action.
in
Sept. 4, 1947—Commission adopts |
second report, over Russian objec->
tlons, embodying elaboration of
Baruch plan.
Nov. 6, 1947—Soviet Foreigi
Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov
says the secret of the atom bomb
has “ceased to exist.”
April 5, 1948—Commission
jects Russian proposals.
re-
May 17, 1948—President Truman
announces three new atom bombs
developed at Los Alamos, N. M.,
were tested at Eniwetok
the Pacific. UN Atomic
Commission announces
atoll in
Energy
it has
reached a deadlock.
Oct. 1, 1948—Soviet Deputy For
eign Minister Andrei Y. Vishin-
■ky tells UN in Paris “it is a rais ¬
take to think there is just gne
state which has a monopoly
over
che atomic bomb.”
Jan. 15, 1949—Palmiro Togliatti,
Italian Communist boss, says “the |
atomic bomb is no longer a secret.” I
June’ 3, 1949—President Truman'
says the United States would use j
P EDRO, THE HALF BREED, 1
watched with narrow, thought
ful eyes as the form of the old
prospector appeared over th; top
of the rise. Behind the prospector
came the burro, loaded down with
equipment of the old man’s trade.
The p r o s p e c t o r ’ s name was
Matthews, and to Pedro, as to
everyone else in Desert Valley, he
and his mule were familiar figures.
Pedro sucked in his breath. A
number of thoughts had occurred
to him all at once. First, the old
man’s step was brisk and his head
high. Second, Matthews shouldn’t
be coming out of the hills at this
time’ of year. He was a month earl
ier than usuaL Why?
To Pedro there was only one an
swer to that question. He clucked
to his horse. His thin lips flattened
against his teeth.
“You have made the strike, eh,
Old Man Matthews?” Pedro said,
folding one hand on top of the
sombrero that Old Man Matthews
had been wearing. He folded it, his
thin lips contemptuous, and tucked
it beneath a saddle strap. Then he
mounted and spat down at the
man.
Old Man Matthews watched
tormentor ride away driving
old
his
the
burro ahead of him. He knew, as
Pedro knew, that no death could be
worse than a day spent on the des-
ert beneath that blazing, torrid
without a head protection.
Old Man Matthews sighed
lay still for a moment or two.
the first time in his
something to live for.
he got to his knees
to the scant shade of
life he
sun
and
For
had
So presently
and crawled
a cactus. He
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the bomb again if necessary.
June 19, 1949—Russian, move
to
against target ships.
Dec. 30, 1946—UN Atomic En
ergy Commission adopts report,
10-0, with Russia and Poland ab
staining, embodying Baruch plan
for controls.
Jan. 4, 1947—Baruch resigns I
outlaw atomic weapons defeated in 1
UN arms conference ’at Geneva. 1
July 26, 1949—Paris newspaper I
Samedi Soir says “the U. S. S. R. '
has the atomic bomb.” Reports
bomb exploded July 10 in Soviet
Asia.
from Atomic Commission, recom- 1
appointment of United
mends
States
cil.
delegate to Security Coun ¬
Ju’y 29, 1949-UN Atomic En
ergy Commission gives up attempt
to reach agreement, says it’s up
to the Elg Five and Canada.
Feb. 18, 1947—Russia submits 12
amendments to atomic report.
March 10, 1947—Security
votes to return problem to
Energy Commission.
March 19, 1947—Atomic
Commission reconvenes.
Cor •.cil
Atomic
Energy
June 11, 1947—Russian plan set
f ° r 1
■ ° f
bombs before control convention,!
forth to commission, calling
destruction and outlawing
Aug. 9, 1949
United States
Britain, Russia, France, Ch:> a and
Canada begin atomic energy talks.
Sept. 20, 1949—United States,
Britain, and Canada open three-
power atomic energy talks in
Washington.
Sept. 23, 1949—President Tru
man si nounces there is evidence,
of a recent atomic explosion in 1
Russia.
2)Id man Matthews cackled and
shook his head.
other over the pommel of his
die. His smile was friendly,
friendly.
Old Man Matthews cackled
shook his head. He told Pedro
sad-
too
have a map
Old Man
that he was
his battered
WASHINGTON—R u s s i
developed
Hitler
j States,
: sources
informed
declare.
transatlantic
hit the United
Washington
of this strike, eh?”
Matthews knew then
in for it. He removed
old hat, scratched his
I as a warhead for
rockets that could
and
that
for 20 years he had been going into
the hills in search of gold, and this
time he had been as unsuccessful
as before.
Pedro ignored the explanation.
“You have made the strike, else
Why do you come out a month
ahead of time, eh? Perhaps' you
head and tried to look indifferent.
But Pedro got off his horse, and
one hand was resting on the butt
of his six-shooter.
Old Man Matthews had lived long
and hard and he believed himself
capable of withstanding almost
anything ip the way of physical
pain. But he did not know the
tricks of this man Pedro. Twice,
when it seemed that all the gold in
the world was not worth such tor
ture, he almost gave in. But he
didn’t. And finally Pedro, sweating
and angry beyond description,
stopped to rest.
“So! You will not tell, eh? You
will die first. Very well, you shall
die—the lingering death.”
Pedro scooped up the tattered old
lay there gasping. Strength came
back slowly. After a while he got
to his knees again and, using a
rock for a weapon, began to hack
at the cactus.
Ordinarily Old Man Matthews
would have given up, believing his.
efforts useless. Now it was differ
ent. Now, somehow, he must make
a head protector from the cactus
and get back to town . . .
Meanwhile, Pedro, riding home,
was beset by a fear. The hat. He
should, of course, dispose of it.
But if he discarded it here, there
was the slight possibility that Old
Man Matthews would find it. Or
someone else. If he kept it, some
one would notice and begin to won
der. What to do with the hat? Ah,
there was a way. He would stop by
the shack that Old Man Matthews
occupied on the edge of the town.
He would arrive at night. He would
leave the hat in the shack and the
burro outside. Someone would see
the burro, would go in search of
the old man, find his body on the
desert and come to the logical con
clusion that the burro’ had wander
ed on home and Old Man Matthews
had perished on the desert; Of old
age perhaps. ^
Toward mid-morning of the next
day. Lefty Barrows, riding in from
the Lazy Y, saw what he believed
to be an apparition. He reined in,
then sent his horse galloping across
the desert.
Old Man Matthews was delirious.
He kept mumbling something
about his hat, and about Pedro.
Lefty.looked with astonishment at
the slab of cactus that Old Man
Matthews, had been holding above
his head. He was curious, but he
would save his questions until lat
er.
Lefty reached Matthews’ shack a
half hour later. He carried the old
man inside and fed him water slow
ly. It was an hour before the old
man came to life. He
around the shack.
Lefty said, “How does
figure in this?”
Matthews raised
elbow and reached
he saw lying on
brought him the
himself
looked
Pedro
on an
for the hat that
a table. Lefty
hat. Old Man
Matthews, his fingers trembling,
ran his hand along inside of the
sweatband. A weak cry of exulta
tion escaped his lips. He brought
out a folded scrap of paper. Lefty
looked at it. It was a map!
Say Russians
May Use Atom
Bomb In Rockets
a ’ s
atomic bomb- is probably designed
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1. “Crime and Punishment” was written by (a) Balzac,
(b) Booth Tarkington, (c) Dostoevski, (d) Dillinger.
2. Salvador Dali is associated with (a) cynicism, (b) stoi
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3. Recently appointed United States delegate to the United
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Herbert Lehman, (c) Bernard Baruch, (d) Glenn Taylor.
4. The U.S. senate recently voted an hourly minimum wage
of (a) 75 cents, (b) $1.00, (c) 40 cents, (d) $1.50.
5. With what school story do you associate Greer Garson?
(a) “A Yank at Oxford,” (b) “Tom Brown’s School Days,”
(c) “A School for Scandal,” (d) “Goodbye, Mr. Chips.”
to bombard America,
lieved the Russir' s
atom bombs in their
giant rockets
It is be-
plan to put
nose.
Russian occupation
nemunde laboratories
of the Pee-
in Germany
! gave them the blueprints and
plant, along with the German
scientific personnel.
J.—(cl
2.—Id)
3.—(a)
4.—(a)
5.—(d)
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