Word: a-bomb
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...discovery means that any nation with a small supply of A-bombs may soon be able to use each A-bomb as a trigger for a thermonuclear bomb, thus easily and inexpensively multiplying the power of each A-bomb a thousandfold...
...would have been useful if the University president had explained that Harvard’s financial investments are intended to support teaching and research, and that such investments should be managed only with those goals in mind rather than being subjected to the whims of political fashion. Instead, the A-bomb term “anti-Semitism” was dropped catachrestically, occluding all other arguments, embittering and insulting colleagues and—most importantly—neutering the meaning of anti-Semitism so that it works not as the name for violent racial bigotry, but as an unsuccessful attempt...
...core of what Hiroshima, 60 years on, represents. Sunao Tsuboi, at 80, knows that better than most. Four or five years after the end of the war, he fell in love with a woman whose parents refused to let her marry him because he was a victim of the A-bomb and who knew how long he would live? In despair, the lovers tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills but failed. Eventually they got married, once it became apparent to her parents that he wasn't going to die young. They had three children and seven grandchildren...
...A-Bomb WWW Museum Go to the bottom of the page for a detailed history of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima. The "Hiroshima Today" section interviews children and citizens about their knowledge of the A-bomb...
Monster-movie parables were the Pop Art of the early nuclear age. Japan got its cinematic revenge for the A-bomb with the story of a prehistoric monster (called Gojira at home, Godzilla abroad), its eon-long sleep disturbed by an A-blast, that rises from the depths to stomp on Tokyo. In dozens of sequels, the beast devolved into a toy or a clown. But here, just nine years after Hiroshima, Gojira is a political metaphor that roars majestically to life...