Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith gave a striking illustration of the atomic-thermonuclear revolution in firepower. If a one-inch cube were considered the equivalent of one ton of TNT. the average bomber load in World War II would stand four inches high; the Nagasaki-Hiroshima atomic bomb would be a 1,666-ft. column, more than three times the height of the Washington monument; the "conventional" atomic bomb of today would tower 4,998 ft. high; and the power of the thermonuclear superbomb, similarly expressed, would be represented by a column soaring 63 miles into...
European newspapers labeled it "a diplomatic blockbuster" and, catching up with the times, "a diplomatic atomic bomb." The bomb: an eight-page Soviet note that landed in Washington, London and Paris last week, touching off flurries of press headlines and foreign-office bustle in capitals all over the world...
...idea of U.S. atomic superiority, Russia's Andrei Vishinsky told the U.N. last week, "is a mere fairy tale ... an echo of the olden days of 1946 and 1947. The Soviet Union does have the atomic bomb and does have the hydrogen bomb .. . . The Soviet Union is not behind other countries in this respect, other countries which, I may add, perhaps may not have all the armaments of this type which the Soviet Union has." Was Vishinsky bragging emptily? Washington correspondents, after taking a few soundings among the close-mouthed U.S. atomic experts, concluded: "If he is not precisely...
...called Krampus Is an Evil Man, Dr. Ernst Kotbauer urged that his children be freed of the frightful cross-examiner. A Vienna daily rushed to Dr. Kotbauer's support. "There is too much fear in the world already," it said, "unemployment, high taxes, not to mention the atom bomb. Let's begin by throwing out Krampus...
...vigilant Freiburg drake began cackling and would not stop. Freiburgers dived for their cellars although no warning had been given, and they got there just in time. A surprise Allied attack laid the city (pop. 109,822) in ruins. The drake's carcass was found beside a bomb crater...