Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Albert Einstein perhaps put it most bluntly when he warned in 1950: "The hydrogen bomb appears on the public horizon as a probably attainable goal. . . .If successful, radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere, and hence annihilation of any life on earth, has been brought within the range of technical possibilities." Thermonuclear explosions in the Pacific have since shown that the goal has been attained, and that the possibilities of drastic damage to life on earth no longer remain purely technical, but now comprise one of the most frightening question-marks in world history: Can the human race survive the radiation...
...question is particularly pressing at the present moment, for both the Soviet Union and the United States seem content to blast away until the H-bomb is perfected without great concern over the possible radioactive effects that can come from the tests themselves. True, the U.S. did help sponsor action in last fall's United Nations General Assembly to set up a special committee to survey the effects of radiation "on man and his environment." But this country has proceeded, nevertheless, with plans for bigger and better H-bomb tests in the Pacific, and cancelled last week's not because...
Guided missiles? "We can compete there too. I am certain that we shall quite soon have a ballistic missile with a hydrogen bomb that can fall anywhere in the world...
...avoided flat answers. Perhaps the Russians really were seriously considering President Eisenhower's dramatic "open skies" proposal for mutual aerial reconnaissance. But to Stassen in the meeting room at Claridge's, Khrushchev said the whole U.S. plan was nothing but a trick to let U.S. planes photograph bomb targets in Russia. The U.S.S.R., he said, would never agree...
...Leger with Never Say Die in 1954), started casting about for a place to house their huge art collection. They settled on a 90-acre hilltop lot in the quiet college community of Williamstown, because a) it was far removed from urban centers which might be atomic-bomb targets, and b) they were convinced that a crossroads museum might entice summer motorists who would never go near a big city art show...