Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the recent campaign, Mr. Thomas E. Murray wrote letters to the candidates urging a resumption of atomic bomb tests, and four nuclear physicists have questioned his technical competence in respect to the problem. He has replied, questioning the competence of the scientists to express their views on questions of policy, and has pointed out that errors of judgment on technical questions have been made by some of them in the past. The whole argument revolves around the questions of the development of nuclear weapons and of an international agreement to discontinue bomb tests. We have accepted such a discontinuance...
...Teller and Dr. Bethe, both brilliant men, spend their time trying to devise foolproof bomb-testing methods which cannot be detected or in trying to devise foolproof methods of detecting bomb tests. But the problem lies elsewhere. If the U.S.S.R. or any other country does not wish to be policed, then no technical skills can be devised which will do so, and if the countries of the world do wish to accept policing, then it is now possible to prevent the manufacture of bombs and the means of delivery of such bombs, and this has been true ever since...
Murray v. Rabi, Wiesner, Bethe and Inglis may make interesting controversy, and the military strength of the U.S., which is being considered, is very important indeed. But bombs are not the only source of strength needed, and we should remember that the bomb negotiations are likely to fail. (In my opinion, they are certain to fail.) It is my contention that the U.S.S.R. will only negotiate seriously when they must do so, and they do not think they need to do so now. A firm political union of the Western democracies would surely impress upon them the desirability...
...sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and wire, and began to shadow Jack Kennedy. He cased the cottage in Hyannisport, sized up the house in Georgetown, headed south for Palm Beach. "The security," he said later, "was lousy." His plans were to rig himself up as a human bomb and explode in Kennedy's presence. "The Kennedy money bought him the White House," Richard Pavlick said. "I wanted to teach the United States the presidency is not for sale...
...last week the London Daily Express reported that the new member of the club is Israel. The story was diplomatically denied by Israel, but the word in Washington is that Israel indeed has begun to produce fissionable material-although it is still a considerable way from producing an atom bomb...