Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasury, including the federal debt, to be perfectly safe from the atomic bomb...
...East Air Force in Japan, marriage is more complicated than a bomb sight. FEAF Regulation 30-I has reduced romance to a vast set of military references, attachments, and enclosures...
...officers were shown the "evidence." One exhibit was an oil-soaked piece of flush-riveted metal which North Korea's Colonel Chang Chun San said was part of a napalm bomb dropped by the marauding plane. There were a few small scorched areas and holes that looked as if grenades had been buried and detonated. There were two mothball-sized hunks of metal which, Chang solemnly averred, had struck Nam IPs jeep. Could the U.N. officers see the exhibits by daylight? No, said Chang, they had to be removed for "analysis." Reading from written notes, Chang called...
There were holes in the Red trumpery big enough to drive a T-34 tank through. The piece of flush-riveted metal might have been part of a U.N. plane, but it could not have been part of a napalm bomb, since the casings are not made with flush-riveting. The scorched areas were entirely too small to have been caused by a napalm bomb, which burns up thousands of square feet of terrain. The Chinese soldier gave the show away when he said that the attacking plane had its headlights on; no U.N. air unit attacks with lights...
Last week the airmen were instructed to bomb only visually in clear weather-to avoid the possibility of a mistake. They were instructed to stay south of the Tumen River, which marks the Russian boundary, and also to avoid a prisoner-of-war camp less than a mile from the Rashin station...