Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machine, like an upended cement mixer, was swung into position over her. There was a hissing of air ducts; a small window in the big machine opened for a few minutes, then snapped shut. The patient had received one of the first series of treatments by the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against cancer...
...cobalt bomb was developed by Canadian atomic scientists and is the strongest radioactive source ever used for a peacetime purpose in any country. Wafers of cobalt the size of a 25? piece were put in the Canadian atomic pile at Chalk River, Ont. and left there for two years to be bombarded with neutrons and made highly radioactive. Then 24 wafers of the radioactive product (Cobalt 60) became the charge for London's cobalt bomb; the others were sent to Saskatchewan for another cobalt bomb, which was in operation at Saskatoon last week. More cobalt is being "cooked...
...cobalt bomb is 25 times as powerful as the world's biggest radium units (one at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital, the other in Belgium), and yet so compact that its rays are easily focused on a small area of the patient's body. And Cobalt 60 is cheap: $17,200 for London's healing metal, whereas the radium equivalent could cost $25 million...
Guido's reply: "My decision is made." With a wild cry, Guido then flung open his trench coat, whipped out a homemade bomb and slammed it against the wall. There was a blinding flash. Daniele fell dead. The secretary's head was blown off. Three employees sitting in the waiting room were injured. On Guido Corini's own crushed body, the police found a note written just before he left home. "It is four o'clock," it said. "I leave with the fixed idea of revenge...
After a group of Congressmen announced that they had seen one bomb dropped on animals, reporters asked AEC "What kind of animals?" AEC replied that it didn't know whether the Congressmen meant Army animals or AEC animals. If they were Army animals, it didn't know, if they were AEC animals, it couldn...