Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact," he growled, "that a quantity of plutonium, probably less than would fill this box on the table*. . . would suffice to produce weapons which would give undisputable world domination to any great power which was the only one to have it. There is no absolute defense against the hydrogen bomb . . . [Before its consequences] imagination stands appalled...
...Bomb of Our Own. "What ought we to do?" cried Churchill, and paused as if hoping for an answer. "It does not matter so much to old people; they are going soon anyway, but I find it poignant to look at youth in all its activity and ardor and, most of all, to watch little children playing their merry games, and wonder what would lie before them if God wearied of mankind...
Thus far, the H-bomb is the only real deterrent. Britain therefore must have H-bombs of its own. "Unless we make a contribution," Sir Winston rumbled, "we cannot be sure that the targets which would threaten us most [e.g., Soviet missile installations, submarine bases], would be given what we consider the necessary priority in the first few hours...
Egyptian headquarters dispatched-reinforcements. Two miles south of Gaza, the Israelis lay in ambush, waiting. As a truck carrying 36 soldiers approached, they hurled a bomb. Blinded, the driver swerved off the road. The hidden Israelis opened a withering fire on the truck's open back, threw hand grenades at the soldiers who tried to scramble out. Twenty-two were killed; no one escaped unwounded...
...Western scientists who have rustled into the folds of the Iron Curtain, few vanished more completely than Italian-born Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo. In late 1950 Pontecorvo, his head and perhaps his luggage crammed with hydrogen-bomb secrets gleaned from his U.S., Canadian and British research, landed in Helsinki without a Finnish visa. He cheerfully surrendered his passport, was not impolitely detained. Within an hour, Pontecorvo, his Swedish-born wife and their three children dropped out of sight. But passengers on the airline bus which had hauled the Pontecorvo family into the Finnish capital recalled that, as the bus entered...