Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kratz and Sutter asserted that the atomic bomb threatens the complete destruction of civilization. Therefore, they argued, world government which was always desirable is now imperative. They insisted that a sufficient spirit of world community exists to sustain "a comprehensive binding system of order...
According to the guidebooks, there should have been a great university, standing in the middle of the town. But when British troops moved into Caen that July day in 1944, they saw no university. The night before, an Allied bomb had struck the library, and fire had destroyed the buildings. The pride of Normandy, the 500-year-old University of Caen, had vanished...
...voice of the bombardier came clearly to all hands at Bikini: "Skylight One, Skylight One. Two minutes before actual bomb release. Mark: two minutes . . . Adjust all goggles . . . Stand by ... Coming up ... Bomb away. Bomb away. Bomb away...
...Beam. Bradley's job was terrifyingly simple. As one of the doctors attached to the Bikini experiment, he had to go into the bomb region with Geiger counters and other instruments, and tell the Army & Navy which areas were too "hot" to be handled safely by their investigators. When, for example, he tested the atmosphere underneath the deadly cloud canopy, his instruments hardly turned a hair-a "boiling updraft" had already swept all floating fission products' high above him. But when he headed down toward the target ships, the Geiger counters "sang" like mad. "Each [ship] seemed...
...Place to Hide is, in essence, an excellent list of the places in which Bradley's Geiger counters burst into song. The average Navyman, who thought that the bomb was expected to pulverize its targets, was at first elated by the relatively undamaged condition of many of the ships (some of them could get up steam and float properly). There was less to be elated about three weeks later after Test Baker (the underwater explosion). To old salts, the spectacle of the Radiological Monitors, "decked out in galoshes, gloves, coveralls, and mask . . . creeping along the passages . . . waving a magic...