Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackson kept growing tenser. A gasoline bomb exploded in the carport of an N.A.A.C.P. leader. Negro leaders walked out of a meeting with city officials after a misunderstanding with Mayor Allen Thompson about their demands. The Negroes prepared for more demonstrations, and Mayor Thompson ordered a hog-wire enclosure, able to handle 10,000 prisoners, set up on the state fairgrounds...
...eleven weeks a campaign of terror has rocked the French Canadian province of Quebec, and sent shock waves rippling all across Canada. Last month a bomb ex plosion killed the night watchman at a Montreal army recruiting center. A fortnight ago, 13 time bombs were found in mailboxes in a Montreal suburb, and a Canadian army explosives expert was critically injured when one of them went off in his face. Last week 18 more sticks of dynamite were found planted in mailboxes in Quebec City, and an explosion shattered offices at the Montreal armory of the Royal Canadian Electrical...
...according to Horowitz, their position is politically unrealistic, since even if "they accumulate data and feed them into a computer and then determine that such and such date would be the most propitious time for dropping the bomb on the Soviet Union, so what? We are not going to push the button anyway...
Dean Monro observed that the shelters were only for fallout, and could only be useful if a nuclear attack were "quite some distance" from Boston. Many students have pointed out that shelters at Harvard would be totally useless if a nuclear bomb fell anywhere near Boston...
Speaking in the Quincy House Junior Common Room, Teller, who strongly advocated development of the hydrogen bomb, maintained that the present U.S. security classification system does not protect the United States; "the Russians probably know all our secrets and all those we will discover in the next few years...