Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Great Britain deserted an old tradition when it established National Health Insurance in 1948; today the heritage of health is respected by citizens and more doctors than would please the AMA. The British program of health insurance has not been completely successful, of course. Its shortcomings have provided bomb-shells for the AMA and should serve as lessons for more constructive planners...
...blustered against the Paris agreements, and warned Germany "they would render it impossible, for a long period, to re-establish Germany's unity." He talked of countermeasures: a new unified command of satellite armies to offset SHAPE. He waved Russia's H-bomb: "U.S. aggressive circles have miscalculated once again . . . The matter has progressed so far that in the production of the hydrogen weapon ... it is not the Soviet Union but the U.S. which is ... the . . . laggard...
...first A-bomb which shattered Hiroshima struck out at its victims over about 7 square miles. Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still...
...student warden's chief task would be to familiarize students in his own and neighboring entries with Cambridge evacuation routes and radiation survival techniques, according to Burke. Since the hydrogen bomb has made mass evacuation the only feasible defense, wardens will not have to learn first aid or rescue procedure, Burke said...
...Hydrogen bomb has made the old "seek shelter" plan useless, said Burke, and all hope for survival would lie in a mass movement out of Cambridge to the north and west...