Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began at 3:30 a.m. Invading Gutasun troops hauled themselves by rope across the river separating them from democratic Renloa, a U.S. ally. At dawn, a Gutasun fighter plane knocked out the defenses of a nearby airfield with a tactical nuclear bomb, and 1,200 Gutasun paratroopers drifted out of the sky to capture the runways. Within hours of the Gutasun invasion, U.S. aircraft, paratroopers and G.I.s were speeding to Renloa...
...this a Soviet bomb blast that the West had not detected or announced? And one set off with manned tanks dangerously near? Probably not. Closer examination of the photograph suggested an entirely different explanation: the mushroom cloud seemed simply to have been painted or superimposed onto a picture of routine tank maneuvers. If so, Red Star's caption writer is clearly a man of imagination. His dramatic description of the scene began, "A mighty atom explosion neutralized the resistance of the enemy. Tank units moved swiftly forward at highest speed carrying out the orders of the commanders...
...Boom, by George Mandel. A troop of U.S. cavalrymen desperately search for wax to make a light in a bomb-crushed cellar, but the darkness of death inevitably comes...
Strauss battled for the hydrogen bomb against even stronger opposition. It included the four other members of the AEC, as well as J. Robert Oppenheimer, and most other scientists advising the commission. President Truman took the advice of Strauss (and others) and ordered the bomb to be built. In August 1952, seven months after the first U.S. test, the Russians exploded their first hydrogen bomb. Strauss resigned from the AEC in 1950, but in 1953 he was appointed AEC chairman by Eisenhower and served until...
...view, misses the irony that he became as evasive under congressional grilling as Oppenheimer did when queried about his Communist connections. But Strauss's critics should beware of charging him with arrogance; it was part and parcel of the doggedness that led Strauss to fight for the hydrogen bomb when more adaptable people had their heads in the sand...