Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They were not, however, kept entirely secret. Long-range atom-bomb watching has become a favorite sport in Japan. When nuclear tests are impending, whether by the U.S. or the U.S.S.R., all sorts of instruments are checked and tuned for superfine sensitivity. This year a survey ship, the Shunkotsu Maru, carrying scientists and scientific apparatus, has been cruising near the danger area in the Pacific, and tuna boats have been gathering radioactive dust. Japanese scientists relish the fact that they are the only ones in the world who make observations and report them openly...
After years of training and practice in accuracy bombing, a red-faced Air Force last week gave itself low marks in its biggest test since the Korean war. The H-bomb dropped from a B-52 over Bikini on May 21, said Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, missed its aiming point by "somewhat less than four miles...
...bomb exploded far enough away from the target to render useless some of the elaborate instrumentation set up at the test site. But the Air Force sturdily maintained that the drop had successfully proved something far more important: the B-52 can deliver the H-bomb and get away intact...
...Then the bomb burst. Whatever the rules in Pakistan called for, it was learned that in California the contestants would have to appear, clad only in bathing suits, before men, women and a TV audience of millions, "to have their physical appearances assessed and judged as in a cattle market," as the Times of Karachi put it. "A disgrace to the Eastern social order and conventions," proclaimed the head of the powerful Brotherhood of Mullahs. In the face of the uproar, the contest promoters gave up. "We are back in Victorian error," sighed...
...weapons tests. "High-yield" thermonuclear explosions toss radioactive material into the stratosphere, where it hangs for years drifting around the earth. The tests also raise the radio active level of large areas of ocean. But these effects are slight, and will do no appreciable harm unless the tempo of bomb testing is increased many times over. There is nothing, say the scientists, to the popular idea that bomb testing has upset the world's weather...