Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clearly lay in more nuclear tests rather than fewer. The scientists say, " 'Give us four or five more years to test each step of our development,' " the President reported at last week's news conference, " 'and we will produce an absolutely clean bomb...
...action. But the slow recognition that this time the Russians might be serious* has made everyone suddenly cautious. The Russians had accepted, at least in broadest principle, Eisenhower's "open skies" inspection and offered for the first time to admit international observers to Russian territory to check on bomb testing. Last week Western governments found themselves re-examining a question they had not seriously considered for years: Does the West really want disarmament...
...salt," said one of the 82 natives, recalling the shower of radioactive ash that fell on Rongelap atoll in the Marshall Islands in March 1954. "It came down like rain, and it burned when it touched your skin." An unexpected shift of wind had carried the ash from H-bomb tests 150 miles away, off Bikini...
...Rongelapese. They were a far cry from the worried souls who three years ago had called themselves "the poisoned people." Good news travels fast, and because of what the Navy and the AEC had done for their atoll, many a Rongelapese who left his home long before the H-bomb blast occurred had decided to return to it. Since island law provides that every member of a Rongelap family, whether living there or not, is entitled to a share of land, the Navy found itself returning a boatload of 275 Rongelapese to the atoll in place...
...Driving the same four-cylinder bomb that carried him home third in the Indianapolis 500, Arizona Auto Racer Jimmy Bryan had time to chew up only three cigars while he wheeled around the steeply banked track at Monza, Italy, and won Europe's first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came...