Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadly suggested again that the U.S. should end the draft, which he described as "wasteful, inefficient, and often unfair." Then he hedged his bets, called for "a fresh and open-minded look at the weapons revolution and the whole problem of military manpower." ¶Proposed a moratorium on H-bomb tests; the U.S. can detect Russian violations, and if "the Russians don't go along, then at least the world will know we tried...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 3-Vice President Richard M. Nixon told reporters this afternoon that Adlai Stevenson was "naive and irresponsible." He made the charges in reference to the Democratic candidate's proposals on ending the draft and banning all hydrogen bomb tests...
...world life." Then, without mentioning Adlai Stevenson by name, he took issue with Stevenson's recent essays into military strategy. The U.S. cannot "prove wise and strong with public speech that erroneously asserts our economic weakness [or] by any such simple device as suspending, unilaterally, our H-bomb tests [or] by hinting that the military draft might soon be suspended...
...even more spectacular type of loft-bombing is used when there is no good landmark to sight on near the target. In such cases, the pilot sets his LABS apparatus for "over the shoulder" bombing, and pulls up into his climb when he is directly over the target. LABS does not release the bomb until the climbing curve has progressed a little beyond the vertical. When the bomb leaves the airplane, it rises in an almost vertical trajectory. It is not quite vertical, however. To compensate for the horizontal distance that the airplane covered after it passed over the target...
...Confidence. In Brixham, England, Mrs. Rhoda Clarke refused to pay a ?1 ($2.80) dog license, told a magistrate's court the things she was protesting: "H-bomb tests, German rearmament, the flouting of the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Human Rights, and British Government policy...