Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first wave of Japanese bombers over Manila 17 years ago turned John Linehan from a civilian Navy employee into a fighter. Linehan rushed repairs on a destroyer, burrowed through bomb rubble for precious parts, on Christmas Day watched U.S. ships slip safely out to sea ahead of the invading Japanese. Then, with Manila in flames, Linehan himself slipped out of the doomed city and joined a guerrilla band...
...eyes fixed on a solemn, balding Navy captain with a staggering burden: two cans filled with 137.3 Ibs. of uranium 235. At 0245 hours on Aug. 6, 1945, the Enola Gay lifted heavily from the long runway at Tinian. Within minutes. Captain William Sterling Parsons climbed into the stuffy bomb bay. Thus began five fateful hours in Liman history...
...after Parsons had cut the umbilical cord linking Little Boy and the Enola Gay, the bomb was "final"-a mighty instrument of war. Four minutes from the unsuspecting target city, Parsons threw the toggle switch that put Little Boy on its own battery power. At 0915 on that sunny August morning, Little Boy fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops...
...almost unnoticed against the splashy baptism of the nuclear-powered submarine named after a Greek god, the Navy prepared to launch a slim, 3,990-ton destroyer at the Ingalls Shipbuilding Yard in Pascagoula, Miss. The destroyer's name: Parsons, after the man who armed the first atom bomb dropped...
...Jordan, 13 of 27 gunrunners were sentenced to be hanged (though privately this time, to spare the sensibilities of the British left), and the trial began of four young men and an Arab Christian girl charged with bomb throwing. Nonetheless, King Hussein was feeling secure enough to order the release of 50 army officers who had been held on suspicion of disloyalty. Not to be outdone, Israel announced it had uncovered "the biggest spy ring ever discovered" with the arrest of twelve Israeli Arabs who were working under the direction of Syrian military intelligence...