Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plutonium could be made into atom bombs, but Dr. Bhabha is sure that India will never make a bomb. He wants to use all the plutonium in breeder reactors to turn India's thorium into ever-growing amounts of nuclear fuel...
...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
...held the remaining six as additional hostages, and forced them to start digging a tunnel through the concrete floor of Cherry Hill. The escape tunnel was abandoned when water seeped into it. The desperate four demanded that Governor Christian Herter send them a getaway car. "One shot, one gas bomb," Green shouted across the prison yard, "and all five of your screws die." Massachusetts Attorney General George Fingold replied over a public-address system: "If one of those guards dies, you all die in the electric chair." As news of the big break spread, the public and the press swarmed...
...Chinese scale). They heavily outnumbered and soon overwhelmed the Nationalists. At dusk, the big Nationalist garrison on Upper Tachen, eight miles away, could still hear machine-gun fire. But later in the night silence fell on Yikiang. Next day the triumphant Reds sent 100 planes to bomb the Tachens-one of the largest raids of the island...
...Moroccans by advocating peaceful compromise are also singled out for quick punishment. "Pig, you've sold out to the rats; you will be a feast for the worms," ran one threatening letter to a government official which was signed "The True Frenchmen." One night last October a bomb was thrown into the apartment of the editor of Casablanca's Maroc Presse, who advocated a liberal, evolutionary solution of the Moroccan problem. Another bomb exploded in the home of a French industrialist who the week before had made a vague speech recognizing the existence of "difficulties." Meanwhile the terror...