Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...July 3 test bomb was really exploded 22 miles above the earth, it should yield valuable information in another way too. One of the toughest problems for the designers of long-range ballistic missiles is "re-entry": i.e., how to get the missile's warhead down through the lower atmosphere at meteor speed without having it burn up like a meteor. If the July 3 test showed that a nuclear warhead achieves "good" effects on ground targets, even when exploded 20 miles above the surface, most of the re-entry problem will have been eliminated...
...Japan, where rain is sometimes really radioactive, a new term, "radiation neurosis" (hoshano noirozeh) has been coined to express a state of extreme nervousness which affects many Japanese after U.S., Soviet and British bomb tests. In understandably jittery Hiroshima, welfare agencies publish bulletins after each rain to assure the citizens that it is not dangerous. In Osaka schoolchildren are told to wear plastic raincoats with hoods. One school held drills to teach the children how to hold their umbrellas so that their hands and faces would not get spattered. Policemen in Itami demanded plastic gloves because their service raincoats...
...France radioactive rain has become a specialty of the Communist press, which blames almost every malaise on U.S. (but not Soviet) bomb tests. The Communist daily Liberation told how growing vegetables were yellowed, how a vineyard was burned "as if by a flame thrower," how an elderly farmer was rained on, felt a prickling sensation and turned yellow all over. French rain does occasionally show a slight amount of radioactivity, but it is never enough to do damage to humans, certainly not enough to blast the leaves off grapevines...
Atomic Weather. In nearly all parts of the world, atomic-bomb tests are blamed for unusual weather. In the U.S., for instance, an article in the Saturday Review by Dr. Irving Bengelsdorf (an organic chemist) blames bomb tests for steering hurricanes toward New England-despite the fact that there were destructive New England hurricanes in 1938 and 1944, before any bomb had been exploded...
...Germany June was uncommonly cold and wet, and a group of Bundestag Deputies formally asked the government to investigate. Other German legislators demanded an official check on the radioactivity of the ocean. In France and Italy the public has the same conviction: the weather is unprecedented; it is the bomb's fault...