Word: bomb
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Officials all over the globe hope that such a frightening specter will sober both countries into backing off their nuclear one-upmanship. But for the moment, each seems determined to match the other, bomb for bomb. After India detonated five nuclear devices two weeks ago, the question was not whether Pakistan would respond but when. At 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons...
...could have been further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag") and the pub vulgarity ("What you get married for if you don't want children") of The Waste Land. Eliot's poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended...
...turn over to Israeli police the two Kalashnikov bullets found in Sharif?s chest, new weight has been given to a different theory. Israeli forensics experts say the bullets were never fired from a gun and were probably part of the debris sent flying when Sharif accidentally triggered a bomb he was making. The bullets did have some scratches etched on them, possibly a primitive attempt to frame the Hamas...
...easy to look back and see the spread of nuclear technology across the globe. A history book can contextualize the dropping of the bomb in this respect, helpfully inserting a "then" before the action as it tells the story of World War II in a grander portrait of the past 1,500 years. The use of such a qualifier helps to connote a progression of events--one that seemingly had to be. And even though we are wise to the fact that contingencies speak to the contrary, it is nonetheless undeniable that we are where we are now because...
...deal to potentially lessen the sentence if Nichols would give the feds more information about Timothy McVeigh and the plot to destroy the Alfred P. Murrah building. But Nichols would not provide any answers in the Denver courtroom. The only statements came from victims of the bombing, who once again told the court how their lives had been shattered by the bomb and called for the maximum penalty...