Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
...certain 1% soda solution could arrest the aging process, but most real scientists simply ignored her. The party denounced the Einstein theory, the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics, and cybernetics as "idealistic." But the scientists used the work of Einstein and Bohr to develop Russia's atomic bomb, and the Soviet began turning out calculators as fast as it could. Physicist Peter Kapitsa, who was placed under arrest for refusing to work on the atom bomb, is now back in favor and heads a research institute...
...Berets. In January 1957, with the Algerian rebellion in full tilt and the capital city terrorized by bomb attacks, Massu was named Military Commander of Algiers. With 20,000 paratroopers, spearheaded by his own loth Parachute Division, he directed the cleanup of terrorists with thudding thoroughness and violence. He came under fire in France for the "police state" operations of his network of 1,500 block informants, and the torture methods admittedly used by his men on captured Moslems...
Belgian consul general in Damascus, and found 33 submachine guns, 37 pistols, a time bomb and 1,500 rounds of ammunition jampacked in the trunk. De San, a millionaire eccentric who admitted making ten such trips in the last few weeks, was found to be carrying riot directions fc-r persons in Beirut...
...m.p.h., the friction of the atmosphere generates temperatures tip to 1,600°F. Beyond the atmosphere, the outside temperature drops to -454°F. -close to absolute zero -and gone is the atmospheric pressure that keeps man's organs from exploding like a blood bomb...