Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experimental dog named Little Curly, into orbit more than 1,000 miles above earth. Sputnik II weighed 1,120.8 Ibs., six times the weight of Sputnik I, heavier than many types of nuclear warheads. The Soviet rocket generated a total thrust more than enough to power an atomic bomb to the moon (see SCIENCE), more than enough to power a missile around the earth. "The unfathomed natural processes going on in the cosmos," Moscow radio proclaimed, "will now become more understandable...
That night police grilled the cowering, neurotic youth, Moshe ben Yaacov Dueg, who had thrown the bomb. "Why did you do it?" they asked. "Because," he answered in sullen, resentful tones, "the Jewish Agency robbed me." He was a worrying, ailing, ne'er-do-well full of fancied grievances against all officialdom; his grudge was a private one, unconnected with the seething political turmoil of the Middle East. "I know," Ben-Gurion wrote his parents, "that you regret, as does all Israel, the dastardly and foolish crime your son perpetrated. But you are not to blame. You are living...
...nine-tenths of the weight of Sputnik I were invested in additional fuel, the remainder (18.3 Ibs.) would reach the moon. By the same reasoning, the launching rockets of the second Soviet satellite could put 112 Ibs. on the moon. This is enough weight allowance for a powerful atom bomb, which would make brilliant fireworks if it exploded on the darkened face of the moon, and might stir up a conspicuous storm in the dust that covers its surface...
...said that to propel a missile to the moon would require about 40 per cent more power than went into either of the satellites previously launched. An atomic bomb explosion, he suggested, would be the best way to signal a missile's hit on the moon...
...morning last week, a bus stopped to pick up officers and men of the U.S. Military Advisory Group at their quarters. There was a deafening explosion. A huge hole opened in the bus's floor while glass and splinters flew like bullets. At almost the same time, another bomb exploded in front of the Five Oceans Hotel, where more Americans were waiting to go to work. That afternoon there was still a third blast in the library of the U.S. Information Service. In all, 13 Americans and three Asians were wounded...