Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hiss and others were Communists. The Government did nothing "except to promote the members of the ring," said Nixon. If the Government had acted, "we might have nipped the Communist conspiracy in the bud;" other Communist agents might have been prevented from stealing atomic information which gave Russia the bomb five years before they might have...
...social dud You've had it You're drunk You've gotton the green banana Your data called up and broke the data Three-dollar bills People who are "out of it" Sack rat A person who likes to sleep Tunk An all-male jolly-up To bomb To study Smooth up Put on decent-looking clothes The 'Case Syracuse, N.Y. site of a bloody and traditional football game Plush courses Gut courses Ace Good fraternity prospect
...Outlawing the atom bomb and all weapons of mass destruction...
...bore is 280 millimeters (11 in.). Since the vital parts of an atom bomb must be roughly spherical, the atomic explosive packed into the gun's shell is not likely to be much larger than a sphere eleven inches in diameter (a regulation basketball...
Encasing the early bombs was a large mass of "tamper," i.e., a heavy metal such as lead or tungsten, whose inertia held the bomb together while the nuclear explosion was getting under way. If the tamper were eliminated, which is possible, the bomb would weigh not much more than an eleven-inch sphere of TNT (about...