Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudis a big step forward: the State Department announced that the U.S. would sell the Saudis at least some of the F-15 accessories they had been seeking. Included in the new equipment will be longer-range fuel tanks and air-to-air missiles. Still under discussion are bomb racks and refueling capability...
...Robert Oppenheimer, known to most as the Father of the Atomic Bomb, lived a life as mysterious and tragic as the hellish radioactive beast that he sired. Attempting to do what Oppenheimer himself did so well, director Jon Else has taken it upon himself to shed some light on both the man and his creation. The Day After Trinity succeeds in penetrating much of the mystery that has so long surrounded the Los Alamos project and the slightly built scientist who coordinated it. Relying on candid interviews with Oppenheimer's Los Alamos colleagues, as well as rare footage...
Rather than occupy himself with the technical aspects of the atomic bomb. Else concerns himself primarily with the man who built the bomb. But early on, it becomes clear that the bomb itself might be easier to understand. Oppenheimer--the student of sixteenth-century French poetry, fluent in six languages, given to reading the Bhagavadgita--hardly can be filed in the mad scientist category. Else seems to appreciate Oppenheimer's complexity and doesn't try to explain the ultimate source of Oppenheimer's often contradictory behavior. Instead, he offers an exposition: he presents the incongruous, ironic and often darkly humorous...
...audience can't help but be drawn into the personal drama of Oppenheimer's life. An observer can almost feel the urgency of Oppenheimer's quest, especially since Else cleverly intersperses clips of the Nazi war machine to underscore the importance of completing the work on the bomb. All the American scientists were convinced that Nazi Germany was working on an atomic bomb of its own: the long days at Los Alamos thus seemed more of a struggle for existence than an audience might appreciate today...
...dull brick Memorial Cathedral for World Peace, where the Pope prayed briefly, the host priest bore scars from the heat and radiation of the atomic attack. Many in the congregation of 1,800 still suffered " anemia, sterility or blood diseases brought by the bomb...