Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basic space vehicle, for several reasons: they are incredibly complex and awkward; they are inefficient and inordinately expensive; they are unbearably noisy and unpleasant; and finally they are unsafe. He points out that soon the rockets on Cape Canaveral will be holding the energy equivalent of atomic bomb in their tanks, and that a devastating accident is an eventually certainty. Some quieter, safer propellant system must be found...
...meritorious contribution to the development, use or control of atomic energy," many observers consider its presentation to Oppenheimer an attempt by the Kennedy administration to clear the name of the nuclear physicist who was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the wartime Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer was declared a security risk...
...within the power of today's student groups to be right in working for massive programs to combat disease, poverty, illness and insecurity. Our world needs the fervor, enthusiasm, and dedicated effort of which youth seems to be capable to work for good ends, not simply against a bomb which nobody wants but everyone feels they must have. Will Roberts
...night reconnaissance; the Chinook and the Iroquois, heavy-duty helicopters that can carry combat squads; and the Caribou, a 150-m.p.h. transport plane that can haul up to 32 men. The choppers will be armed with machine guns and 2.75-in. rockets; the Mohawk observation planes may carry conventional bomb racks and napalm as well...
...first visible sign that the time bomb has been triggered, whether at four or 40. may be jaundice. But more threatening is the brain damage: tremor, loss of control over physical movements, and personality changes. In young victims mental retardation is obvious. In adolescents and adults the effects of brain dam age are often mistaken for a variety of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia...