Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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About 29 years ago, as an Air Force B-36 bomber flew over New Mexico, a hydrogen bomb weighing 42,000 lbs. somehow got loose, tore away the plane's bomb-bay doors and plunged to earth, landing in the desert about ten miles from Albuquerque. The Mark 17, an estimated ten-megaton monster hundreds of times more powerful than the weapon that leveled Hiroshima, was one of the largest bombs in the U.S. arsenal. It did not set off a nuclear explosion, but it did leave a crater 24 ft. across...
...reporting on the little-known incident last week, after having sifted through documents newly made available by the Freedom of Information Act, the Albuquerque Journal said conventional explosives used in the bomb's trigger did detonate but failed to set off a thermonuclear blast. A Defense Department official sought to put the best possible light on what could have been a calamity by saying the failure of the bomb to explode "confirms the efficacy of the safety devices...
...villages, a few local tribespeople insisted on returning at midweek to the lands farmed by their ancestors. Their homecoming could not have been a happy one. As the Rev. Fred Tern Horn, a Dutch priest who serves in the area, described the scene, "it was as though a neutron bomb had exploded." All of the huts and buildings remained intact, and the mountains and tropical forests appeared unscathed. But almost no life stirred for miles around...
...successor, James Bryant Conant, was a chemist of somewhat more talent than Eliot, and he was to play an important part in the development of the atom bomb. He led Harvard through World War II, when the Yard swarmed with more soldiery than it had seen since the Revolutionary War. When it subsequently swarmed with veterans, Conant introduced the influential "general education" program that required all students to take survey courses in the humanities, sciences and social sciences...
...photographers in the Portland show, Yan Morvan and Alfred Yaghobzadeh, have worked in Lebanon, and from some of their pictures one can grasp the moral implications of that tone. Their best images are their least polished: Morvan's scene of the aftermath of a car bomb, Yaghobzadeh's shot of two men bearing the victim of heavy shelling. For photographers working in the rubble of failed diplomacy, the most decent impulse is to use the camera as a branding iron -- the right pictures are blunt, scorching and indelible. That they can also look raw and haphazard is merely proof that...