Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CLOSE : Now about the neutron bomb, which is supposed to destroy people and leave buildings intact. Well, we approve of this because it goes along with the American ideal of the preservation of the home...
...hugs nuclear device on the fringes of outer space. Even a short look at the serious protests registered by eminent scientific organizations is enough to make one question the purity of Time's versions. The briefest consideration of Van Allen's incredible vacillations on the effects of the bomb and the careful revisionism carried out by governmental agencies is enough to convince one that a deception had been perpetrated. If anyone suffers from the bomb's effects in short he will do so not because the U.S. government made a tragic, mistake but because it acted irresponsibly...
First: The government and its famous scientific adviser Van Allen now claim that no one could have predicted the bomb would alter the patterns of radiation around the earth to the extent it did. In fact, a number of prominent scientists, both American and foreign, advised the United States that such a test would cause gross distortion of the earth's magnetic and radiation fields and consequent difficulties for several fields of scientific inquiry. For example, Professor Lovell of the Jodrell Bank. Observatory warned very early that the blast would greatly hinder radio astronomy and might create new dangers...
According to Walker Sullivan of the New York Times, the idea of he forthcoming explosion, we read, came from two physicists at the University of Minnesota back in 1958. They proposed that a hydrogen bomb be exploded inside the Van Allen radiation. "This would contort the earth's magnetic field and dump particles it had. The particles would plunge into the atmosphere, producing spectacular auroral displays." "It might be amusing," they wrote," to end the international Geophysical year by destroying some of the radiation field first discovered during the I.G.Y...
...takes only a moment of reflection to show that this is nonsense. Again she says: "Each insecticide is used for the simple reason that it is a deadly poison. It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact." Any housewife who has sprayed flies with a bug bomb and managed to survive without poisoning should spot at least part of the error in that statement...