Word: bomb
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...minute amounts of copper. As recently as 1960, medical textbooks stated: "The course of the disease is inexorably downhill if untreated." Most baffling is the fact that the inherited defect may either produce severe illness within the first year of life, or lie dormant like a slowly ticking time bomb for as long as 40 years. In the A.M.A. Journal last week, two New York City doctors reported that they have developed a way to detect the defect before any illness has developed, when diet and drug treatment have the best chance to postpone, if not to prevent, its usual...
...honest picture of nuclear war. Most of the literature sounds as if it were written for the London blitz, and fails to see the qualitative difference between the V-2 and ICBM. Cambridge, for example, distributes one book-let that was written in 1950 and discusses an atomic bomb the size of the ones used over Japan. Another booklet begins, "Remember grandma's pantry, its shelves loaded with food, ready for any emergency, whether it be unexpected company or roads blocked for days by a winter's storm?" Needless to say, the analogy between a thermonuclear warhead and winter storm...
...above chart indicates the radius (in miles) of the area of 100% mortality, with or without fallout shelters. For example, if a 10 megaton bomb burst over the Harvard Yard, Concord would be within the area completely destroyed...
Wilson carried on a mild flirtation with the H-bomb "unilateralists'7 when he challenged Gaitskell for party leadership in 1960, and for a time plumped for neutralism instead of NATO. Last week Wilson reassured everybody that the Labor Party "stands firmly by NATO." And he added, "We should expect to have a very happy relationship" with Washington. In a recent Commons speech he argued that Britain should avoid the needless expense of a separate nuclear deterrent, but nevertheless should have a voice in deciding when the West (i.e., the U.S.) uses its nuclear power: "There must...
...Forster. Those earlier friendships he wrote of in the first two volumes of his autobiography-The Golden Echo and Flowers of the Forest. In the present volume he opens, with a necrology-a list of the old familiar faces that disappeared from his world in the 1930s by suicide, bomb, cancer, tetanus, flying, steeplechasing and assorted other agents. The Familiar Faces is their obituary...