Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likely to be completely knocked out by a nuclear attack, even for a moment. It is a matter of record that at Hiroshima and Nagasaki railroad-type structures stood up among the best, while at Hiroshima regular railroad service was resumed within 18 hours after the first atomic bomb was dropped...
...tank. Nothing betrayed the presence of the most monstrous potential new weapon in the U.S. arsenal-designed to be fired 5,500 miles along a ballistic trajectory reaching 500 miles above the surface of the earth at speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h., to plunge an H-bomb warhead into an enemy target. Under the shroud was Atlas, the U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile...
...Colonel Schriever, in charge of development planning for Air Force headquarters, was one of the R and D officers who felt-and he proclaimed what he felt insistently-that a full survey of future nuclear warhead design ought to be made so as to shrink the cumbersome new hydrogen bomb into an ICBM. The H-bomb had a higher range of destruction than the Abomb, the argument went, and the need for pinpoint accuracy was therefore reduced...
Unlike the history of the aircraft carrier, the long-range bomber, the hydrogen bomb, the nuclear-powered submarine-all of which met service opposition before acceptance-the history of the missile has little record of military unwillingness to accept it as the weapon that must be developed at top speed. Another point is that the armed forces are not phasing in the missiles prematurely. "It is just as dangerous to have a weapon too early," said one SAC officer, "as it is to have it too late...
...even as his cold eyes range far into space, Ben Schriever, missileman extraordinary, keeps his feet on the earth. His job is to find out how to move an H-bomb 5,500 miles from Point A to Point B in 20 minutes before the Russians find out how, and to produce the hardware that can do it. "The mission is to maintain the peace." he says. "The ballistic missile will improve our deterrent capability. This will make any aggressor think twice...