Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemplation of the actual consequences of a nuclear explosion: "It was rather more general than that, a fear that we would somehow end up in nuclear war, but not exactly what would happen in that war." George B. Kistiakowsky, a retired chemistry professor who helped develop the first atomic bomb, argues that then as now people forced themselves not to think about the horrors of nuclear war, preferring to discuss the threat in theoretical terms. Himself overwrought with concern. Kistiakowsky cancelled his classes at the peak of the crisis...
...leading opponent of the project. "Even in the unlikely chance that a plane crashes into a laboratory or a terrorist group acquires the newly-cloned strain and puts it into a city's water supply, the results could be more of a disaster than the atomic bomb...
...gates of Beirut, life in the city had been harrowing. "There were bad moments, worse than anything I can remember during Viet Nam," said Stewart, who was TIME'S acting Saigon bureau chief in 1972. "I felt like a hunted animal, as if the shells and bombs seemed to follow me across the city." On one occasion, a bomb hit his apartment; on another, explosions pulverized his neighborhood. Two weeks before the final ceasefire, an explosion ripped through the floor where his hotel room was located...
...terrorists had exploded a bomb in the middle of the crowded check-in area at Ankara's Esenboga Airport on Aug. 7, then opened fire with submachine guns on passport-control officers and passengers, mostly Turkish workers returning to jobs in West Germany and The Netherlands after a holiday. One of the gunmen was reported to have yelled at his victims as he fired, "More than a million of us died! What's the difference...
...close of business on the previous Friday, Aug. 6, Gulf Oil Corp. had dropped a short-fused bomb on the stock market. Citing antitrust objections by the Federal Trade Commission, Gulf abruptly pulled out of an agreement to acquire Tulsa-based Cities Service Co., the 19th largest U.S. oil firm, for $5 billion, or $63 per share. When trading opened last week, the price of Cities Service shares had dropped to $30. Scores of brokerage firms and speculators who had bought huge chunks of the stock for prices as high as $56 were staring at the possibility of losing perhaps...