Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armitage. The group was greeted at the airport by a line of smiling Vietnamese officials, then loaded into several black Volga sedans. As they rode toward the capital, the Americans noticed that much of the countryside had the appearance of a nation on military alert; antiaircraft guns loomed over bomb craters, and camouflaged radar antennae poked their way out of thatch-roofed huts...
None megaton nuclear bomb explodes over downtown Boston. The vast destructive force of the blast levels every building in the city. Huge amounts of deadly radioactive fallout cascade from the explosion. Boston is engulfed in a raging firestorm. Everyone within four miles of the blast--everyone in Cambridge, Everett, Dorchester. Watertown--is killed istantly. Ninety percent of the survivors elsewhere require immediate attention for severe burns. But because most hospitals have been destroyed an most health workers are dead, each person must wait in agony for 26 days to be seen by a physician for just five minutes. Epidemic diseases...
Secret taping by Presidents has been generally condemned, but there may be another message in those reels and discs. There is no such thing as a casual conversation with a President, either by friend or foe. Every presidential word is a potential time bomb for good or bad, when it is carried out of the Oval Office to be used. Presidents know that. And visitors understand that what they say to a President can be just as explosive. It will always be so, and should be, as long as the office has the power it does...
...injured in the Hiroshima atomic explosion and the Viet Nam War; near Le Beausset, France. Author of one of the first textbooks in his field and founder of plastic-surgery services in several New York City hospitals, Barsky led the team that treated the "Hiroshima maidens," 25 deformed A-bomb survivors who came to the U.S. for surgery. In 1969 he set up a 50-bed unit in Saigon and spent much of the next six years there helping to treat more than 7,000 children, grafting skin and restoring savagely burned faces and hands...
Then a captain in the U.S. Air Force, Kim flew ever Nagasaki, Japan, the day after its destruction by an atomic bomb. Kim said that he finished the "Now and Then" songs the day before the bombing's anniversary last year, and was astounded by how powerfully they showed his feelings of loss upon seeing the utter desolation of Nagasaki...