Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purporting to be knowledgeable, Fail-Safe thus plays on the deepest fears of humanity in the age of the atom; it is deliberately calculated to send distraught mothers to the picket lines with their Ban-the-Bomb signs. There is only one trouble: Fail-Safe is filled with falsities and distortions, and as such is not only a poor book but a cruel one. Among the major conflicts of fact and fiction...
There is sometimes a bit of a ripple at home. Richardson is married to Actress Vanessa Redgrave, who makes speeches in Hyde Park and goes on demonstration marches for the ban-the-bomb move ment. Richardson is tolerant but unpersuaded. In his view, "peace is helped by bombs." The mutual-deterrent thesis is "the only realistic way." At the moment, Vanessa has been forced to leave her crusading to others. Her father, Sir Michael Redgrave, is due to be a grandfather before spring...
...transistors. There they form a surface layer that prevents the transistors from working properly. Something of this sort may have happened to Telstar. It was built to resist an expected level of radiation in space, but just before it was launched, the U.S. exploded a powerful nuclear test bomb above the atmosphere near Johnston Island (TIME, July 20). Eminent scientists had dismissed the suggestion that the test would create much high-level radiation, but their forecast was wildly wrong. Telstar's instruments reported long-lasting radiation 100 times as strong as had been expected...
...Very well. Let me ask you a few more specific questions. Why are you opposed to bomb shelters...
...Well you might have read that the leftist chemist testified that U.S. bomb tests caused genetic harm to present and future generations; or, the Nobel-Prize winning scientist testified that Soviet bomb tests do the same thing. It depends, of course...