Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors told the National Academy of Sciences that this medicine, which is derived from the human blood, may be used to combat shock and treat burns. The scientists expect it will replace both plasma and serum albumin, an anti-shock medicine, in use against war wounds or atom-bomb casualties...
Nevada tests of Atom Bomb Number Five have been another step in the rearmament of free nations to curb Soviet aggression wherever it may exist. The Truman Doctrine for the defense of Greece and Turkey, military aid to Franco and Tito, and the establishment of NATO armed forces under General Eisenhower have been earlier steps in this policy of containment...
Such emphasis is very necessary when a country is still fighting a war after its troops have advanced beyond pre-battle boundaries, when a record peacetime arms budget has been passed by its lawmakers, when Atom Bomb Number Five has become such a common-place reality that the country's tourists are attracted...
...usual, the AEC maintained a guarded silence, admitting only that another explosion in the current tests had taken place. But newsmen camped in the hills overlooking the site thought it was a medium-sized tactical atomic bomb with an explosive force equal to about ten tons of TNT, a weapon small enough to be carried by a fighter plane and used in direct support of troops in the field...
What of today's youth? Some are smoking marijuana; some are dying in Korea. Some are going to college with their wives; some are making $400 a week in television. Some are sure they will be blown to bits by the atom bomb. Some pray. Some are raising the highest towers and running the fastest machines in the world. Some wear blue jeans; some wear Dior gowns. Some want to vote the straight Republican ticket. Some want to fly to the moon...