Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid," and New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller said that the states would have a hard time ever making it work. Medicare neatly defused the political bomb contained in the Forand bill. But all those who had an interest in a sound program hoped that Congress would not try to put together a slapdash measure from a number of different plans, but would wait until after the election...
Smilingly describing himself as a "conservative" in such matters, black-browed Physicist Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned against the risks of submitting to a ban on underground explosions. "Very few things in science are impossible," said he. "but I do not believe that there is any great likelihood that even in four or five years from now there will be a really foolproof method of checking underground explosions down to, let us say, one kiloton [1,000 tons of TNT]. No matter how we proceed we cannot...
...deserted by 9 o'clock at night, and people are huddled behind shuttered windows straining to hear the sound of explosions. Next day facts and rumors are traded: a car is reported to have been shot up by Reds in the city's outskirts; a plastic bomb is said to have been hurled into a cafe; a police roundup is claimed to have netted hundreds of suspects. The 2,500 U.S. citizens living in South Viet Nam have been "advised" not to expose themselves needlessly by traveling at night...
...much atomic bomb power does the U.S. have? Too much, believes Major General John B. Medaris, recently retired chief of the Army's Ballistic Missile Agency. Medaris told an A.F.L.-C.I.O. World Affairs Manhattan meeting last week that "a prominent Senator" (who turned out to be Jack Kennedy) estimates that the U.S. already has an atomic stockpile equaling "ten tons of TNT for every man, woman and child on earth." World population: 2.8 billion...
Died. Donald J. Hughes, 45, nuclear physicist and one of the makers of the first atomic bomb, senior scientist at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1949, who toured Soviet labs in 1957 and concluded that the Russians concentrate money and manpower on propaganda-making science, but are behind the U.S. in the basic research that produces practical results in the future; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...