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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the U.S. Army and the Atomic Energy Commission confirmed what Exercise Long Horn hinted at. The atomic bomb, once a massive city-buster suitable only for use in strategic air attack, has been tamed and reshaped as a major new tactical weapon for the U.S. Army. Its bulk has been compressed and slimmed into a workable artillery shell. The shell can be fired with pinpoint accuracy by a new highly mobile atomic artillery piece. The atomic cannon is already in production...
...physicist, Colonel Angelo R. del Campo, drew up some sketches and took them to the AEC laboratories at Los Alamos. Working in high secrecy, West Pointer del Campo spent months juggling the requirements of artillery against the requirements of an atomic charge. (Sample: the mechanical parts of an atomic bomb need only be strong enough to withstand the bumps of turbulent air; the mechanical parts of an atomic shell must be 4,000 times as strong to stand up under the explosion when the gun is fired.) One day Del Campo telephoned his Pentagon bosses: "I've just returned...
Groundman's Answer. The critics of atomic artillery, who have battled Collins for the past two years over his expensive A-cannon project, hold that the A-cannon can do nothing that an airplane can't do by dropping a tactical atomic bomb. Collins answers back with a seasoned groundman's vehemence. In bad weather, airplanes just can't perform tactical missions within the cramped confines of the battlefield. And even in good weather, one miscalculation by an atomic bombardier could panic a whole division on his own side...
...farmhouse ablaze, an exploding bomb, a boy running into a woods, a vineyard recognizably Yugoslavian by the way the vines were staked, another farmhouse and another man & wife told further chapters of the deaf-mute odyssey. A final drawing showed the Austrian guard picking him up at the border...
...charge to blow up the office, and another child-at the end of a leash-growling savagely at a terrified dog. Asks the startled clerk: "And you say you have experience with riots, first aid, salvage and repair, a knowledge of weapons and nothing but contempt for the atom bomb...