Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every nation capable of building the bomb wants to. Each potential nuclear power faces a different set of circumstances and national attitudes, which may change rapidly if and when any other state decides to join the race. The nations with the greatest existing nuclear capability, and how they...
Some 16 non-nuclear states already have the industrial and technological resources for nuclear weaponry. India, which has good reason to fear China's intentions, could produce an atomic bomb in 18 months. Experts predict that Israel may follow India into the nuclear club. Next may come Japan, which could manufacture nuclear weapons in two years or so, well before the early 1970s, when Red China is expected to have intermediate-range missiles for its warheads. The race could then return to Europe, where the whole process of proliferation started, and continue on to South Africa and South America...
...least 30 military bases, knocked out 127 antiaircraft batteries, shattered 34 bridges. In their wake the planes left ablaze 17 destroyed truck convoys and an equal number of weapons-carrying trains, along with 20 radar stations, 33 naval craft and the entire Dong Hoi airbase. Yet even as the bomb line crumped closer to crowded Hanoi, there was no sign of Ho's flinching...
...burned homes and barns, destroyed a dairy plant and dynamited two bridges nearby. Other guerrillas raided two police outposts, stole arms and ammunition, killed seven police before disappearing into the dense Andean jungles. Last week the terrorists carried their vicious little war to Lima itself. One night a small bomb exploded in Lima's fashionable Club Nacional and another erupted outside the nearby Crillon Hotel. Remarkably, only three people were hurt...
Early this month, 50,000 German university students marched out of their classrooms for day-long demonstrations along the streets of 120 cities and towns. The picket lines had nothing to do with banning the bomb or demanding free speech. Carrying such signs as WHERE IS OUR FAMOUS GERMAN EDUCATION NOW?, the students were protesting the decline and fall of a school system that once was as synonymous with excellence as Swiss watches are in timekeeping. One newspaper called the demonstrations, designed to prod West Germany's two major political parties into pledging their support for better education...