Word: bomb
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...decided to proceed with the production and deployment of the MX." He called it "the right missile at the right time." The four-stage, 71-ft.-tall missile is designed to carry ten nuclear warheads, each only 5½ ft. long and 17 times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The weapon is indeed a wonder of modern rocketry, but it is nothing the Soviets could not match...
...PROCLAIMED its self-destruction on March 6, 1970, when a luxurious Greenwich Village townhouse exploded in a serious swirl of stone, glass, and human bodies. Left dead and mutilated were three young bomb-makers, one of whom had mistakenly ignited a cache of 100 sticks of dynamite intended for some unsuspecting organ of the Establishment. The preeminent leftist campus group of the Sixties. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) had first emerged 10 years earlier, boasting a provocative dissent from the ideals of liberal America. But by the time the organization had deteriorated into the underground Weatherman network...
...impressive case. Prosecutor Theodore Greenberg elicited the most damaging testimony from Wilson's former associates. His girlfriend and manager of his Geneva office, Roberta Barnes-code-named "Wonder Woman" in the operation-said that Wilson did send the U.S. Government information about Libyan plans to build an atomic bomb, but only after he was already under indictment. Peter Goulding, another former aide, testified that Wilson had threatened to kill Goulding's wife if Goulding returned to the U.S. and cooperated with investigators. He also entertained the jury with a vivid description of Wilson's childlike delight when...
Bishops and the Bomb...
...bishops argue their case against nuclear arms in the months ahead, they will contend that this stance is consistent with the tradition of church teaching on war. Until the Bomb, Christianity's approach to war had remained fundamentally unchanged for centuries. The earliest Christians refused all military service because they thought Jesus' love-thy-neighbor teachings mandated pacifism, and because Rome required idolatrous vows. Christianity became an established religion in the 4th century and soon embraced St. Augustine's "just war" theory, expanded in later centuries by Thomas Aquinas and other theologians...