Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second step in Nova's dance, however, weapons designers will put its powerful beams to a less benign purpose: to improve thermonuclear bombs by mimicking certain reactions in the controlled setting of a laboratory. That will save the Pentagon the expense of having to try out every newly designed bomb at an underground test site in Nevada, a procedure that costs about $10 million per explosion. Eventually, Nova could also be used in research for the Star Wars defense program...
...channel it into a usable form, scientists must be able to control the fusion reac- tion and confine it to a chamber, which requires surmounting some formidable physical constraints. The hydrogen nuclei must be crushed together with enough force to overcome their mutually repellent positive electric charges. In H-bombs, that force is supplied by the detonation of a fission bomb, or A-bomb...
...wanted to fight, but he wanted the scraps small, on the cheap, on the quiet, done and over in a hurry. Early in 1965 he was mad at everybody. "The let-us-negotiate people are rabbits. I'm being pushed all the time by the big- bomb boys. I took one target off the list the other night because it was too close to Hanoi. But if the South Vietnamese can't protect American installations, we might have to send more Americans over to do the job." More men. More bombs...
...calm again. "My Viet Nam policy is the three Ds --determination, discussion, discretion. I don't want to drop one more bomb than I need to in Viet Nam. Caution is uppermost in my mind...
...brave allies are in the field, it is impossible." By January 1967 it was this way: "It would be just my luck to have the bombers come over North Viet Nam and the lead plane would be piloted by a boy from Johnson City and he'd put a bomb right down the smokestack of a Soviet ship in Haiphong Harbor...