Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were found in his house. When newsmen badgered him for an interview, he pinned a statement to his door: "The police have found in my attic the following: two 35-ton tanks, two batteries of 75-millimeter howitzers ... 35 engines of a type not yet invented, half an atomic bomb...
London itself of course shows plenty of signs of the blitzes, though a stupid enough tourist can easily drive along Regent Street and gurgle that "you'd never think there'd been a bomb dropped in London!" Many buildings, still standing and apparently unharmed, are completely burned out inside. Every few blocks at least there is an empty lot, looking no more romantic than an empty lot in Dedham, but bombed, not wrecked by Curley & Sons, Contr. Most shocking are the "wide open spaces"--areas in the East End, thousands of yards square, blitzed as smooth as an infield...
Several of the more unattractive aspects of journalistic and political activities were blended into one incident when the New York Sun published it recent scare story about the theft of certain A-bomb files. Statements issued late by Senators Hickenlooper and McMahon indicate that the Sun, foe one reason or another, had printed erroneous facts leading to an equally erroneous conclusion. Whereas the Sun reported that secret data was removed from files at Oak Ridge after they had been entrusted to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission, the truth seems to be that the papers were lifted from Los Alamos...
...Called the world's most powerful battleship, the Musashi displaced 72,809 tons fully loaded, sported nine 18-inch guns-the world's largest. U.S. Navy flyers sank it with six torpedoes and numerous bomb hits in the Battle for Leyte Gulf...
...ideas seem sound. Some of these ideas are old, familiar, yet supremely important--that there is no defense against atomic weapons; that if by a mutual, unspoken agreement we simply abandon the idea of world government, we must logically begin an immediate preventive war; that the possession of bomb piles by states moving in terms of classic nationalism must also mean...