Word: bomb
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Kistiakowsky, a member of the Harvard Faculty since 1930, is known for studies in the mechanics of chemical reactions. During World War II he devised a system of conventional explosives to trigger the first atom bomb...
With Nagasaki flattened by an A-bomb (code-named "Fat Man"), Emperor Hirohito gathered his ministers in an underground shelter and asked them to sue for peace. Such intervention by the Emperor was extraordinary, and, since Hirohito was believed to be divine, his request was also presumably a commandment from heaven. But his military advisers resisted surrender; a group of fanatic staff officers made a futile attempt to seize the palace and overthrow the government when they learned of Hirohito's decision. These and other chaotic events leading up to Imperial Japan's capitulation are arranged with precision...
McNamara. Under it, NATO will counter any Soviet attack with a three-phase graduated response that will begin with conventional weapons, step up to limited-range battlefield nuclear missiles, and progress to all-out H-bomb attack on the Soviet Union only if the Russians refuse to withdraw...
Some ten miles south, on Tinian Island, where the Enola Gay took off with the A-bomb for Hiroshima and jungle encroaches on concrete roads named Broadway, Fifth Avenue and Lexington Avenue. Jones is clearing the bush for his largest investment in Micronesia's future, the BarK ranch. He leased 7,500 acres of Government land, almost one-third of the entire island, has already built 32 miles of fence and brought in 920 head of Black Angus-Hereford cattle from New Zealand. His goal is a herd of 8,000 head, plus hogs and chickens to supply...
Mickey Norlander, the sophomore transfer from Florida, hit a 20-footer from the right side, which was quickly followed by Bon Johnson's long bomb from...