Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the bomb went off, my wife sat up in bed and said, in a surprised voice, "My word! Another bomb !" Our two older children, aged 4 and 2½, were rather excited, but not unduly disturbed. We thank God that he did not allow the larger bomb to explode; the police said it would have leveled the house. We can take the bombs and the nasty phone calls and letters; we can take the insults and the stares. But please, we don't want people to think we've started to get panicky and to run away...
...Baby Doll, I couldn't resist dropping over to view Carroll Baker, this year's Pudding Plum. Of course they threw me out when I tried to crash, but someone told me Carroll was actually over in the Yard being given the old tour treatment. Sure enough, a black bomb half as long as University Hall was cruising lethally along frosh row, and when I ran up and peeked in a pair of soft blue eyes met mine...
...Bomb to Bone. The Columbia men did more than analyze bones; they also traced the path of strontium 90 from the nuclear reaction to the human body. Most of it was produced by the biggest thermonuclear explosions, U.S. and Soviet, and most of it rose high into the stratosphere. The particles are so small that they fall very slowly until they reach the lower atmosphere. Then rain washes them quickly down to the surface. This process takes time; strontium 90 is now spread all over the earth, with somewhat less in the Southern than in the Northern Hemisphere...
Most of the strontium 90 created by past bomb tests is still in the stratosphere or in the soil, but it will tend to move for years into human bones. If no more large tests are made, the Columbia men figure, the average human bone should contain, by 1970, about 1.3 micromicrocuries of strontium 90 per gram of calcium. This is eleven times the present amount...
...Neumann played a vital part in the wartime atom-bomb project. After the war he continued to advise the Government on high-level scientific problems, including thermonuclear weapons and guided missiles. In 1955 he became a member of the Atomic Energy Commission. His advice was instrumental in convincing the Department of Defense that a high-yield thermonuclear warhead could be made light enough to be carried across an ocean by a ballistic missile of practicable size. This thermonuclear breakthrough now dominates the thinking of the U.S. (and probably of the U.S.S.R.) about strategic warfare...