Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stellar performance of the tiny sub during the second Titanic mission was only the latest in a long list of accomplishments. Among the more remarkable of Alvin's 1,716 deep-sea missions: locating and helping to recover (from a depth of 2,850 ft.) an H- bomb that fell into the Mediterranean after a B-52 bomber and a KC-135 tanker collided over Spain in 1966; discovering peculiar new life-forms, including tube worms 10 ft. long, while probing hot-water vents in the ocean floor 8,000 ft. below the surface of the Pacific...
...flight-data recorders from a spot 6,700 ft. deep, while Scarab 2 mapped and photographed the wreckage, some of which was later retrieved. Their achievements enabled experts to determine that the jet's forward baggage hold had been ripped apart in the air, almost certainly by a bomb...
...1950s and the American government has started shipping its top scientists to the middle of the Nevada desert to test the Atom bomb. But Rose, the narrator who lives in Las Vegas, which lies close to the testing site, is touched only peripherally by the newcomers. She spends most of her time worrying about her turbulent relationship with her step-father and whether she will win the county spelling...
...about pollution issues surrounding the state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base in Honduras...
...same day a bomb exploded outside the Paris headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The predawn blast was apparently the work of the left-wing group Action Directe, which has taken responsibility for attacks in France recently...