Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlanta Constitution, described the incident as a "harvest of defiance of courts and the encouragement of citizens to defy the law on the part of many Southern politicians." He warned that "it is not possible to preach lawlessness and then restrict it. To be sure, no one said go bomb a Jewish Temple or a school. But let it be understood that when leadership in high places in any degree fails to support constituted authority, it opens the gates to all those who wish to take the law into their hands...
...owned a small, constant frequency cyclotron ("the only kind available at that time," says William M. Preston, director of the current cyclotron laboratory). During wartime, however, this machine was appropriated by the government and taken out to Los Alamos for use in the experiments that led to the atomic bomb...
...Prior to the bombing," he said, "crowds had mobbed the streets outsid the school, and police had seemed reluctant to take any action. But once the bomb went off and Nashville became subject to national ridicule, police came out of their lethargy and cracked down on mob violence...
Kistiakowsky also participated in the Manhattan project which developed the atomic bomb during World...
...dials, found that some put out five to ten milliroentgens an hour one inch from their shining little faces. This, they say in Science, is several times greater than the natural background radiation from cosmic rays and the earth's crust, more than 100 times that received from bomb-test fallout to date...