Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico. The Jemez Mountains and the Sangre de Cristo range rise from the Rio Grande Valley, the gray-green slopes splashed with yellowing aspen. The incomparable clouds of the high desert float over the city on the hill. Los Alamos, birthplace of the atomic bomb, is a 40-year-old company town (pop. 17,500). The company is the U.S. Government, and the main business is nuclear weapons. The lab's Bradbury Science Museum has all kinds of hands-on exhibits explaining peacetime uses of magnetically confined plasma, inertial fusion and lasers. But weapons...
...Philadelphian has an impressive receiver corps to work with. Tight end Lal Heneghan has 17 catches and fullback Chuck Nolan 10. Senior split end Karl Hall specializes in the bomb. He has only nine receptions this fall, but he scored touchdowns on four of them and averages 27.2 yards per catch. McGeehan's favorite target, however, may not play: wide receiver Rich Syrek suffered a knee injury two weeks ago, missed last Saturday's game and is questionable for today...
...world-renowned scientists who once worked together to develop the atom bomb squared off last night over the next development in the arms race--weapons for outer space...
...other hand, Teller, who is considered the father of the hydrogen bomb, acknowledged that while the development of such weapons will prove scientifically difficult, it is necessary to curb a growing Soviet military threat...
Both Teller and Bethe worked on the so called "Manhattan Project" during World War II in which the United States developed the atomic bomb...