Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollywood discovered nuclear war fifteen years ago. The Bomb has since provided stupendous finales for countless films which would have otherwise decomposed more slowly on their...
Once a strong voice in favor of tightly guarding U.S. scientific secrets, Physicist Edward Teller, 56, now thinks everyone should be let in on most classified information. Why? "I am pretty well convinced that the Russians have all our secrets," the father of the H-bomb told a House committee on U.S. research, "and I am even afraid they have the secrets we are going to discover in the next two years." That being the case, the only ones in the dark on most data are "our industry and our citizens." The present criterion for releasing news of an important...
Ploughshare optimism is based on studies of a long series of craters blasted by both chemical and nuclear explosives in the Nevada desert. The first, called Buster Jangle-U. (1951), used a crude atom bomb with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. It dug a circular hole 53 ft. deep and 258 ft. in diameter. The next shot, Teapot-Ess, had the same yield, but it was placed deeper and it dug a deeper and wider crater. With these and other shots, Ploughshare scientists built up a body of theory and experience in which they have great confidence. Latest and largest...
...Strangelove, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. The egghead President of the United States, one Mirkin Muffley, chirrups into the phone to the Soviet Premier: "Now, then, Dimitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb? The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is that one of our base commanders did a silly thing. He, uh, went a little funny in the head. You know, funny. He ordered our planes to attack your country . . . Let me finish, Dimitri...
...audience was evacuated at 3:30 p.m. when an anonymous female phone caller told police a bomb had been placed in the theatre; the afternoon's showing of "The Wheeler Dealers" was finally resumed...