Word: abomb
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...chairman of the Chiefs of Staff and builder of his country's nuclear force de frappe; when his military DC-6 crashed on takeoff from the Indian Ocean island of Réunion, killing 19 aboard, including his wife and daughter. Placed in charge of developing a French Abomb, Ailleret orchestrated the project that succeeded in detonating a low-yield plutonium device in the Sahara in 1960; as Chief of Staff, he planned the "all azimuths" strategy, in which France seeks the ability to deliver nuclear weapons to any point on earth...
...general, Lifton discovered, hibakusha hold themselves in lower esteem than do other Japanese. In telling of the hibakusha experience, the late Yōkō Ōta, Japan's best-known writer of "Abomb" literature (Town of Corpses, Human Rags), depreciated her work and herself with such statements as "Do I have the right to imagination? Can what I say about the dead ever be authentic?" A Japanese professor of English expressed the same idea with lines from T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets: "They can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with...
...since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
...explosion marked the start of a new and crucial phase in the development of France's atomic arsenal. From the four explosions in the Sahara in 1960-61 and subsequent tests, the French developed a 60-kiloton Abomb, but it is so bulky that France's 40 or 50 force de frappe Mirage IV jet bombers are able to carry only one apiece. What the French hope to achieve in the new tests is a smaller, powerful warhead to ride atop the intermediate-range missile for which silos are already being dug in France's Haute-Provence...
Three major events broke with an abruptness that gave editors little time for orderly planning: the Walter Jenkins scandal, the deposing of Soviet Premier Khrushchev, the detonation of Communist China's first Abomb. Along with these came another flurry of fast-breaking news, including the new Nobel prizewinners and the unveiling of the U.S.'s controversial TFX fighter-bomber. And, as if that were not enough, newspapers had to cope with such predictable front-page stuff as the wind-up of the World Series, the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the British elections...