Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atom bomb scares me, sometimes Khrushchev frightens me, but the Kennedys absolutely terrify...
...fourth bomb in a week exploded in a Madrid street last week, testifying to the increasing boldness of anti-Franco plotters. Bright-colored opposition handbills showed up on tables in cafes, on street corners, plastered to walls and telephone poles in side streets of a dozen cities. More than a hundred unhappy Spanish politicians boldly gathered 900 miles away in West Germany to talk earnestly of the freedom that Franco fears. Workers gathered in town squares to whisper in awe and pride of the only successful strike in the history of Franco Spain, won by the stubborn Asturias coal miners...
...charged with being part of an S.A.O. commando intending to assassinate De Gaulle. Police claimed the plotters had hoped to plant explosives at a railway underpass near Vesoul and blow up the presidential auto as it went through. Imitating smugglers, the S.A.O. group were also reported to have trained bomb-carrying dogs to respond to ultrasonic whistles: they could then be directed near De Gaulle in a crowd and the bombs exploded by remote control...
...consists of a page with seven words, a drawing of the Garden of Eden, two more pages with seven more words, a drawing of a Rube Goldbergian battle scene, and a final few words. Intended "for use in Martian infant schools," as the title page puts it, Ban-the-Bomb Bertie's text reads, in toto: "Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable." In case anyone misses the message, the pamphlet closes with a photo of a towering mushroom cloud...
...particularly the powerful radars that are being developed to spot ballistic missiles plunging down from space. A high-altitude nuclear explosion, the AEC explains, acts like an enormous, radar-blinding smoke screen. Radar beams that search the sky for invading warheads may be either absorbed or totally reflected by bomb-ionized air. An enemy hoping to hit a target defended by radar-guided anti-missile missiles might well explode a warhead several hundred miles up to create an electronic smoke screen that would blind defensive radars to other warheads racing toward their targets...