Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's long-distance scientific atom-bomb watchers (TIME, March 12 et seq.) were convinced that a nuclear weapon fired by the U.S. July 3 over Bikini was carried by a rocket, not an airplane, and that it exploded at a height of at least 22 miles...
Kameo Ito, chief of the government's Yamagata meteorological observatory, bases his theory on a close study of the air waves from U.S. and Soviet tests. When a bomb is exploded on the ground or near it, says Ito, the shock waves spreading upward into the lower stratosphere are lengthened and delayed by air conditions there. Eventually they are refracted downward and reach microbarographs in Japan a few minutes behind the shorter waves that have passed directly through the lower atmosphere...
Tell-tale Pattern. The waves from earlier U.S. and Soviet tests followed this pattern. But during this summer's tests, Japan's microbarographs showed a difference. With each explosion (the U.S. has announced only one), the initial, shortwave phase decreased, indicating that the bombs were being exploded higher and higher in the atmosphere. On July 3, the Japanese picked up a wave pattern" that had almost no short waves. Ito thinks this proves that the explosion took place above 22 miles. If it did, Ito reasons, the bomb must have been carried by a rocket. No existing bomber...
Anticipated Fate. After the war, in semi-retirement as an adviser to the Navy Department, Ernie King, five-star admiral of the fleet, remained a power in Washington, fighting the Navy's war against integration of the services, never retreating from his belief that despite the A-bomb the Navy as a fighting and landing team should be the nation's first force. Then, in 1947, came a brain hemorrhage from which he recovered enough to write, with a collaborator, Fleet Admiral King, a third-person account in which, with typical reticence, little of his inner self...
...growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...