Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Columnists Stewart and Joseph Alsop said last week: "Such a bomb would severely blast an area of 140 square miles, and moderately to severely blast an area of 260 square miles . . . The fireball...
would send a heat flash sufficient to ignite combustible material, or to cause killing third-degree burns on exposed skin, within an area of 300 square miles."- Said the Alsops: "We can no longer doubt that men can make . . . the ten-megaton bomb with a force of 10 million tons of TNT." Air Secretary Thomas Finletter was just as gloomy as the Alsops. He said: "The destructive power of atomic weapons includes not only explosive blasts of force and heat but also the gamma ray-a ray which is deadly to human life. The gamma ray is, as it were...
...remarkable statement from a man in Finletter's position as the civilian chief of the military arm charged with responsibility for delivering the nuclear weapon on an enemy in case of war. Who is supposed to think through the "political and military implications" of the H-bomb? Not the public, which heard officially of the H-bomb only last week...
...experts," who are experts in nuclear physics rather than strategy or politics. The really frightening aspect of the H-bomb, as disclosed in Truman's speech and Finletter's interview, is that nobody within a radius of 9.8 miles of the White House has accepted a clear responsibility of thinking through the dreadful-but not hopeless-problems that the new bomb raises...
...cats that guarded Milan's dilapidated, bomb-scarred old Central Railway Station, the best and bravest was Momi, a dirty-grey draftee from the Milanese back alleys. Sallying forth on mission after mission from her base in Control Tower C, Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning...