Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help dampen any potential riot sparks. Dixie Hills looked as if it might avoid serious bloodshed. Shortly after dark, however, there was another brief flurry of rock throwing, and a Molotov cocktail landed at the feet of policemen patrolling the area. Almost instantaneously at least one shotgun blast was fired, killing an onlooker and injuring three others, one critically. Though police insisted that a sniper had fired the shot, all four victims were indisputably hit with the No. 00 shot used by police...
Seismographs in Tokyo and Seattle shuddered from a distant explosion last week. From Peking came a boastful announcement: "China successfully exploded her first hydrogen bomb over the western region today." The Chinese left no doubt that the explosion was meant as a political blast. Calling it "a splendid achievement of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," Peking added: "China's hydrogen-bomb test will give very great support to the people of Viet Nam, fighting against the U.S., and to the Arab people, who are resisting the Israeli aggressors...
...bombs. But they test-fired an intermediate-range (1,000 miles) missile last October. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has warned that the Chinese will have effective IRBMs in limited numbers by 1969, and ICBMs capable of reaching the continental U.S. by the mid-1970s. Last week's H-blast was certain to step up clamor in Congress for an immediate start on the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile net. It may also prompt India and other nations to decide to build their own nuclear weapons...
...hysteria. Government control has broken down in vast areas. Even Mao's own forces of Red Guards, workers and army troops have started fighting among themselves. The wall posters in Peking tell of daily bloody battles, riots and vandalism all across the stricken land. Red China's blast showed that, despite all of the disorders, its nuclear program was moving relentlessly ahead...
...June 19, 1968 the asteroid Icarus, which is nearly a mile in diameter, will crash into the mid-Atlantic, 2,000 miles east of Florida. Its impact - the equivalent of a 500,000-megaton bomb blast - will splash out some 1,000 cubic miles of sea water and form a crater 15 miles across in the ocean floor. Tidal waves 100 ft. high will sweep across coastal cities on both sides of the ocean, and earthquakes 100 times worse than any ever recorded will be felt all over the world. Clearly, Icarus must be stopped. No expense will be spared...