Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director, Hiroshima Atomic Bomb...
...gate before being beaten back. ¶1934: nine convicts and a guard died in "The Lincoln Day Break." ¶1952: a loo-ft. tunnel was discovered shortly after prisoners were given a dinner by the warden for digging no tunnels during the previous year. ¶1953: a convict-made bomb killed Prison Manager Albert Gruber. A two-day riot and $500,000 fire killed one prisoner, destroyed five buildings. One-quarter of the prisoners (400 men) held a "sleep strike" after using barbiturates to go on a mass bender...
...Dillon Anderson saw the President for 15 minutes today," he said, "and you can take it from me that what they talked about was not pasteurized. It was top-secret security material. Nothing is being held back from him. If there was an emergency on Formosa, or an atom bomb was dropped, we'd tell him. We wouldn't barge right in and toss the news in his face, but we'd tell...
Antimatter is a favorite subject with science fiction writers, who like to write about inhabited planets made entirely of it. A poignant moment comes when the beautiful anti-girl explodes like an H-bomb on kissing a man from Earth. These fantasies are built on the theory that isolated parts of the universe, such as distant galaxies, may be built of antimatter...
During World War II, the physicist directed the Los Alamos laboratory that perfected the atomic bomb. In the spring of 1954, Oppenheimer was declared a "security risk" but not "disloyal" by a 2-1 decision of the Atomic Energy Commission...