Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voice of the Church. Many West Germans do not share Strauss's desire for the Bomb, but there is a rising clamor in many quarters for a more "active" foreign policy in Bonn. Adenauer's Free Democratic coalition partners, led by Erich Mende, constantly press the government to be more independent. And recently a memorandum approved by top leaders of Germany's Protestant church took a similar line: "The foreign policy of the government appears to us too one-sidedly defensive . . . We expect our Western Allies to assume the risk of a nuclear war in order...
...mutinous paratroopers, and this time he was taking no chances. With the agility born of experience, short, stocky Diem dashed down the stairs of the palace's east wing to a cellar fortified against such emergencies, flashed word by telephone to his military commanders just as a napalm bomb turned the west wing into a smoky shambles. In a west wing apartment, meanwhile, Diem's brother and sister-in-law, Braintruster Nhu (still clad in pajamas) and Presidential Hostess Mme. Nhu, snatched three of their children (a fourth was away from home) and bolted for the basement...
...painful pioneering; their scientists can find everything they need in their library. They can study nuclear engineering in U.S. or European universities and buy nuclear instruments, equipment and materials on the open market. No scientific brilliance, only routine competence, is necessary to turn these readily available resources into practical bomb-making technology. According to one U.S. atom expert, a task force of 20 Ph.D.s and about 300 engineers could make something go boom...
...rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick and I feel godam arful...
Last week the AEC explained that recent bomb tests have been conducted in deep vertical shafts. The walls of the test chambers are of sedimentary strata full of small pores. The irresistible pressure of a bomb's expanding fireball compresses this material, forming a spherical cavity holds its shape for 15-25 minutes; then the cooling gases lose their pressure. With a horrid noise the roof falls and all the way to the surface. With a horrid noise the roof falls, and all the way to the surface the layers of shook-up material tumble down after...