Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good Communists have long frowned on the capitalistic, zoot-suited squares who resist the muscular dedication of their People's Republics. They call them variously hooligans, Bikinists (after the big bomb and the little bathing suits) or just plain Schlurfs. Last week a 25-year-old, gun-toting Schlurf named Jan Brzoza was up before a Polish court, charged, along with three accomplices, with robbery. The court decided to make an example of Brzoza and sentenced him to death on the simple grounds that if a Bikinist is not already a traitor he will probably be one before long...
October, 1935: Nationalist bomb police car in San Piedras. Police kill four Nationalist after gunfight...
...years the thermonuclear bomb has lain like a half-seen nightmare in the back of the world's imagination. Scientists have mentioned it with awe in their voices...
Horrifying reports about the first "H-bomb test"-at Eniwetok in the fall of 1952-have spread around the world. Some of the rumors sounded silly, but none except a trusted few could judge how silly they were. Last week New York's Representative Sterling Cole, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, announced that the reports were, in fact, true...
...material blown from the great crater. Item: Did radioactive chunks of it sail through the stratosphere? He did not fully describe the heat radiation or the shock waves that must have traveled through the air and sea. He said nothing about the powerful gamma rays that the bomb must have released. But more revelations may be coming. "I hope," Cole said, "that within a few weeks the American people will be able to witness in reproduction [movie film] the full fury of a hydrogen explosion...