Word: bombe
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...During the Trinity Test of the original atomic bomb, Enrico Fermi playfully offered a wager on “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world...
...Bomb attacks have hit India with a kind of grinding regularity over the past few years. Since 2005, more than 520 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in 10 major bombings around the country. Yesterday, at least 80 people died when seven or perhaps eight separate bombs exploded within minutes in the crowded central market area of Jaipur, a popular tourist city in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. Police say the bombs appear to have been strapped to bicycles and rickshaws. Though no one has yet claimed responsibility - such claims have been extremely rare after previous attacks - government...
...Yesterday's blasts came on the 10th anniversary of New Delhi's nuclear weapons tests in Rajasthan - tests that confirmed India as a nuclear weapons power and led to an escalation of tensions with Pakistan, which subsequently tested its own nuclear bomb. The neighbors, at loggerheads over the disputed territory of Kashmir since independence six decades ago, almost resumed hostilities earlier this decade. But in the past few years, tensions have eased, in part, because Pakistan's government and security agencies have been busy dealing with the many problems at home...
...argument wouldn't have been surprising. That era, which saw the birth of the modern environmental movement (the first Earth Day was observed in 1970), was obsessed with the idea of global limits, that without drastic intervention, we were doomed to overpopulation. Books like Paul Erhlich's The Population Bomb warned that the Earth was reaching the end of its carrying capacity, and that within decades, hundreds of millions of people would starve to death. The only way to avoid this Malthusian fate was rigid population control, which many environmentalists were in favor...
Whether or not the truce holds, Ulster-men will celebrate Christmas in a mood of nervous suspense. Many a Christmas present will be refused or opened gingerly: it may contain a bomb. Children will not be getting toy guns as gifts: too often edgy British soldiers have mistaken youngsters in the gloomy streets of the Lower Falls Road or the Bogside for Provo gunmen...