Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUDIENCE was not allowed outside during intermission, probably to prevent any last minute assault by suicide stink-bomb squads. Most of the audience poured out into the Wang Center's stuffy lobby, sipping over-priced Coca Colas and complaining about the protesters...
Before an audience of 150 in the Lamont Library Forum Room, the two politicians were joined by Sara Mattes, who chairs the Mass. Freeze Voter anti-nuclear organization, and physicist Phillip Morrison, an Institute Professor at MIT, who participated in the Manhattan Project, which developed the first atomic bomb...
...said the mechanics of nuclear bombs are now so well understood that further testing can produce no more than "modest engineering advances." What goes wrong and needs to be tested in a weapon is its electronic mechanisms, not the bomb itself, he said...
...will not hesitate to bomb those [South African] installations," she stated...
...generations later, the longings have grown more aggravated and the real horrors have metastasized. Terrorism and the Bomb, the breakdown of the ozone layer and the rise of crime -- almost any news item will serve to drive readers to distraction. Manhattan Psychiatrist Robert E. Gould finds that horror "is extremely distracting. That is one of the main purposes of its popularity. In difficult times, in the world outside and your own world, you reach out far from yourself. Also, you can control that horror. You can stop reading any time you want." His colleague Dr. Herbert Peyser agrees. In horror...