Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nine F-10s Thunderchiefs swooped low, dropped 750-lb. bombs that disintegrated a target supply depot. A dozen F-100 Super Sabres scorched the earth with napalm. A Falcon rocket burst from an F106 Delta Dart, sent a drone aircraft to the ground in blazing bits. As a Tactical Air Command flight of F-105s sped overhead, a simulated nuclear bomb was exploded in a miniature fireball and nonradioactive mushroom cloud. As the waves of noise, heat and blast rolled across Florida's Eglin Air Force Base, Commander in Chief John Kennedy grinned from a rocking chair...
...Pentagon colleagues: "They're just as tough as combat operations, and sometimes men get hurt or killed." In preparing for the Eglin show, one did. Captain Charles G. Lamb Jr., 31, of Indianapolis, died when his F-10s disintegrated at 2.000 ft. as he practiced a supersonic bomb pullout with a force...
S.A.O. killers went on to bomb unemployed Moslems queuing for relief at a social-security office and to shell a Moslem cafe with mortar fire. In Oran, where tough General Joseph Katz delayed an all-out offensive against the S.A.O. while awaiting additional French troops, Secret Army snipers fired on Moslems from the rooftops; European householders cheered...
...North Atlantic Treaty nations sat down once again to debate the question of atomic weapons. As had been obvious for weeks, Washington's longstanding scheme to give NATO its own nuclear striking force was virtually dead before the annual spring conference began. Britain, with its own bomb, was not interested, and Charles de Gaulle was too busy developing France's force de frappe to concern himself with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of others. In fact, the U.S. itself now was less than enthusiastic about the idea; among many Washington officials, there is a nagging doubt...
...shock waves and radiation on its aircraft, and the Navy is equally concerned about its ships. The Army is waiting anxiously for the impact that the tests will have on its Nike-Hercules anti-missile program. It will be bad news for the Nike-Hercules if a test bomb exploded at high altitude makes the air opaque to radio waves. This might mean that an elaborate Nike-Hercules base could be blinded by a single nuclear weapon, even by one of its own rockets...