Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sniffing out a suspect for the book-bomb crime...
...Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered his bleeding wife on the floor, gasping, "A bomb! A bomb!" Three hours later, she was dead...
...timing was both fitting and macabre. Last Thursday the U.S. detonated a nuclear bomb in the 20-to 150-kiloton class under the desert of Yucca Flat, Nev. The test blast was the eleventh this year, but it came on the eve of the 37th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and on the day the U.S. grass-roots nuclear-freeze movement faced its first real test of political strength...
Thirteen hours after my return to Baghdad, a different kind of war hit the capital. A bomb exploded inside the Ministry of Planning, killing an unknown number of people and wounding scores. It was a professional job: the explosives gutted all six stories of the building. The government has played down the explosion, but such a terrorist strike in a city preparing to welcome the summit of nonaligned nations in September does not augur well for security. It also underlines the view of my friend, the Basra merchant, that the Shi'ites may not be as loyal...
...bomb detonated in a flash of orange. A growing white circle indicated that he had destroyed his opponent's forces. But the weapon he chose was so powerful that it also wiped out his own troops. His only comment: a subdued "Holy smoke." Says George Smith, one of the program's designers: "The rapidity of casualties surprised them...