Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pressure from the air has prevented the Viet Cong from massing as effectively as they otherwise might, and has made regular sleep difficult for many a V.C. trooper. "It is terrible and miserable," wrote one Red soldier killed at Due Co before he could mail his latest letter. "Airplanes bomb and strafe, and we can do nothing about it. The fighting situation is tough, too serious and difficult. Sometimes we can muster only one platoon for military operations. I am sick almost every day with stomach pains. Drugs are low. Our rice turns sour. We would like the battalion commander...
...Heroes of the California rebels (and as Cal goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...
Lamont tells his story in terms of the men and the science that conceived and built mankind's most destructive weapon. The route that led up to the bomb tower in the desert was one of monumental uncertainties and incalculable risks. Says Lamont: "Never in history had so many embarked on so fateful an undertaking with so little certainty about how to proceed...
Trinity was the name chosen by Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, scientific leader of the project, for the site of the assembly and testing of the bomb that would bring Japan to her knees. "Oppie," as he was known to his colleagues, was relaxing over a volume of John Donne's poems when word reached him that the Air Force had granted a site for the test in the Jornada, 55 miles northwest of Alamogordo. Asked to suggest a code name for the site, Oppie glanced at the line he had just read...
Fresh material and personal glimpses of the men involved bring the familiar narrative to life: Einstein absently losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...