Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...catapulted from the carrier Boxer in the Japan Sea. For the first few minutes the robot's flight was controlled from the carrier's deck; then a piloted AD attack bomber, serving as a guide plane, took over. The Hellcat had a 2,000-lb. high-explosive bomb strapped to its belly, and a television camera under one wing. A TV screen in the guide plane enabled the observer to see just what the robot plane's camera "saw." Another screen on the Boxer also reproduced the show...
...bridge. The control man in the AD put the robot into a screaming dive, kept his aiming crosshairs on the bridge as he watched it grow bigger & bigger on his TV screen. When the screen went blank, the control man knew that the robot and its camera, the bomb and the bridge had all blown up together...
...Chief of Staff, called for an investigation to determine whether the damage could have been prevented and whether the Air Force should park fewer of the big planes at any one field. To some bewildered citizens, the most amazing report was that the 107-more of the big atom-bomb carriers than the U.S. had even publicly acknowledged owning-had been lined up wing to wing. As the U.S., of all nations, had the most reason to know, enemy attacks can be as unpredictable as tornadoes-and even more disastrous...
...return for giving up a possible Nobel Prize, Conant has directed a great university to some of its most notable triumphs, has made the crucial decision to build the atomic bomb, and has become the most incisive defender of liberal education in the United States today. Inevitably he has also become the sort of public figure editors cherish for making news no matter what he speaks on. Conant is a familiar figure to periodical readers; to devotees of "Scientific American" he is known as a top-notch organic chemist, to the faithful of the "Boston Pilot" he appears...
...Biggest: Du Font's $1.420 billion job to build the Savannah River H-Bomb plant...