Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Farnborough air show, yet the R.A.F.'s Fighter Command still depends for its frontier strength on a nucleus of Sabre jets, supplied by the U.S. and Canada. Britain's V-class bombers (Valiants, Vulcans and Victors) are still not operational, and to deliver its atom bombs, Bomber Command relies on the twin-engine Canberra, now officially classed as a "medium bomber." British designs are often first-rate, but British production is sluggish. The major difficulty is that the British Cabinet is still unsure how best to apportion its defense funds to meet the facts of the Hydrogen...
...FLYING BOAT, the Martin XP6M Seamaster, will give the Navy its first water-based, long-range strategic jet bomber next spring. The new plane, under construction at Baltimore, will have an internal bomb bay built into the hull, will be powered by four Allison J71 engines buried in the wing, and probably have enough speed (600-plus m.p.h.) to outrun the Air Force...
...most recent H-bomb test (by the Russians) was made in Siberia about three months ago, but the fallout of fear and worry that the H-bomb tests have caused has by no means died away. Like the menacing byproducts of the explosions, concern has spread around the world...
...past two years," wrote Martin, "there have been about ten H-bomb explosions, each of them equivalent to from 1,000 to 2,500 A-bombs of the type used at Hiroshima. Their effects are on a scale involving an appreciable fraction of the planet. Certain effects on the atmosphere may upset the natural conditions to which life has become adapted...
Global Effects. An H-bomb, said Martin, does the following things...