Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implacable time schedule-or we were goners. Our own special vulnerability to atomic warfare was told and retold in a way that was correct but fearsome in the extreme. Maps of New York City were published showing in detail just what ghastly horrors would occur if an atomic bomb . . . was dropped in the Hudson River...
...Swiss: "All I can say is, we have no atomic bomb...
Seven foreign military attachés, on an inspection tour through a Canadian artillery training center, were asked a recurring question: Did they think Russia had The Bomb yet? Their answers...
Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...
...carriers' in Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing links that will spread dangerous atomic bomb atoms to human beings was reported today at the University of Washington...