Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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OVER in Nevada, TIME'S science expert, Associate Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard, waited for the A-bomb to go off. More than one dawn he stood on Yucca Flat in a milling mass of scientists, newsmen, civil-defense workers, military observers and state governors, just waiting. To the north, the Joshua trees stood like shaggy ghosts, and behind them lights marked the 500-ft. tower that held the bomb. Near by, TV crewmen turned their great searchlights toward the ground to warm themselves in their artificial sunlight. The desert was bitter cold, and no one seemed to have enough...
...weeks he commuted between the Flat and Las Vegas' luxurious Sands Hotel, while the weather changed often but never pleased the Atomic Energy Commission enough to explode the bomb. When it finally changed for the better last week, Leonard followed the AEC and civil-defense experts into the mock village to report the NATIONAL AFFAIRS story, Rehearsal for Disaster...
...want of something better, Laborites pin their electioneering hopes on the wide spread British fear of the H-bomb (the Labor manifesto opposes more H-bomb tests, but stops short of opposing the making of the bomb). Topic B is the rising cost of living. But most curious of all, the word socialism is not even men tioned in the entire manifesto. The authors had in mind men like a London bus driver who explained last week: "I vote Labor because it speaks for the little man. But I can't stick nationalization and I don't like...
...Cogan was called upon by the Atomic Energy Commission to evaluate eye injuries in the Japanese stom bomb survivors...
...first attack came several hours before the Saturday formal dance, when the pair apparently crept into the balcony overlooking the dance floor and spread the chemicals on the floor and railings. The second bomb was thrown into the main entrance of the Union...