Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Japan after a leisurely multistop flight over the Pacific in which inflight refueling was successfully used. The F-84 Gs replaced a garrison wing of Thunderjets which went to Korea to fight. From Japan the new planes can reach any target in southern Manchuria, and they are equipped with bomb racks for carrying "tactical" (small) atomic bombs. Official Washington pooh-poohed any notion that the U.S. would use atomic weapons either in Manchuria or in North Korea-but the Communists knew that Washington might change its mind...
...credit: the music was a familiar old tango, El Choclo; she decided the brooding rhythm made it "sound like a dirge," souped it up with a beguine tempo. But she also credits the lyrics. They are not too cheerful ("You record a happy song today, and you lay a bomb"*), in fact they are downright masochistic: Though it burns me and it turns me into ashes, / My whole world crashes without your kiss of fire...
...Today's bomb is yesterday's turkey, brodie, stinker, flopperoo...
Another military factor will be the vast amount of debris thrown out by an atom bomb that penetrates earth or heavy buildings. It will be highly radioactive, and chunks of it flying for miles will poison large areas. The Army engineers say they are not interested in the bits of rock that were thrown three miles by their scaled-down bomb. But atomic bombardiers will certainly take note...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...