Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have almost completed the development of the first British megaton bomb...
Silent Chancellor. All the while, 81-year-old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sat stonily in a front row. After all, he himself has recently been pulling away from the Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...
...chill November night, a squadron of Canberra bombers taxied down the runway of the R.A.F. base outside Nicosia. Their orders were to bomb the Inshass airfield outside Cairo. Suddenly one bomber slumped nose-down on the runway. Four minutes later, 24-year-old Pilot Dennis Raymond Kenyon faced Squadron Leader Norman Hartley. "What's the matter, Dennis?" Hartley demanded. "Did you push the wrong button?" Dennis Kenyon threw his helmet on the ground and burst into incoherent tears. Later he told Hartley that he had deliberately retracted his wheels because "I did not altogether approve of what we were...
...gauss.* Pressure rose above 1,000,000 lbs. per sq. in., and the metal churned and writhed as the magnetism clawed into it. Such pressure and violent motion may have some bearing on nuclear fusion, and this may be why Furth is now working at the famous hydrogen-bomb laboratory at Livermore, Calif...
Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but wanted no part of a war with Britain or the U.S. He had little to say in Japan's World War II government until 1943, when apprehensive Premier Tojo wanted a moderate Foreign Minister, gave him the post. Railroaded into the war crimes trials by the Soviets (who blamed...