Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like most strategic airmen, Sir John is convinced that atomic air power is not a tragedy but a boon, for willingness and capacity to use it will make its use un necessary. He believes that "the super sonic airplane, allied to the atomic and soon the hydrogen bomb . . . has made total war an obsolete conception." There is no real defense against atomic air power ("I advise you not to be unduly impressed by the stories about the wonderful guided missile that is going to shoot down all these supersonic bombers...
...Britain should give Moscow a solemn warning: "That in the event of aggression [against any of the NATO powers, including Germany], the aggressor will be subjected to the full weight of Anglo-American air power, using the atom, and in due course, the hydrogen bomb." The West should also inform Rus sia that West German forces are ready in two or three years . . . British and U.S. troop will be withdrawn "from the Continent, and the French forces back into France." Western troops would remain in Berlin "as a token force," but the protection of West Germany would be left...
Over Kiel, Knoke had time to watch the heavy babies in action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...
...starvation. In Düsseldorf, Munich and other cities, where only a few years ago the ragged populace scrabbled through the rubble in desperate search for a single potato, rebuilt hotels teem with prosperous travelers, and the air is filled with shop talk and cigar smoke. In the Ruhr, bomb-shattered steel mills glow once more through the long winter nights. Germans who were once glad to sell their prized possessions for a few packs of cigarettes now have one of Europe's strongest currencies in their pockets. Shops are loaded with consumer goods and crowded with substantial-looking...
...turning uranium into bomb-worthy plutonium, the British did not use water-cooled reactors like those at Hanford, Wash. They are too dangerous, potentially, to build near populated places, and they require a larger supply of water than was readily available in Britain. So Britain's reactors were air-cooled, with radia-torlike cooling fins around the uranium rods. There are two reactors, side by side, near Sellafield in Cumberland. Rows of great fans like outsized airplane propellers blow gales of filtered wind through holes around the uranium. After another filtering to catch radioactive dust...