Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Borne on the winds that sweep out of Russia, radioactive dust from the Soviet Union's latest super H-bomb (TIME, Dec. 5) descended on its neighbors. The Dutch army reported a "high content of radioactive substance" over The Netherlands; West German scientists spoke of "an appreciable increase in radiation," and Paris' Municipal Hygiene Laboratory said that radioactivity over the city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with...
Three days later, the Soviet foreign ministry confirmed the AEC announcement and revealed a little more. The bomb, said the foreign ministry, was exploded at great height to minimize the radioactive fallout (radioactive rain fell on Japan last week), and was the occasion for research in civil defense as well as in the development of atomic energy...
...size that Khrushchev fixed for the new Russian bomb appeared to indicate that it was smaller than some super-bombs the U.S. has exploded. But neither the variation in size nor Khrushchev's self-applauded statement supplied much comfort to the week's nuclear news...
...chief of staff will be Lieut. General Adolf Heusinger. 58. a small (5 ft. 6 in.), sandy-haired army veteran who began his career as a cadet in World War 1, rose to be Wehrmacht chief of operations in 1940, was standing at Hitler's side when the bomb exploded in the Fuhrer's East Prussian headquarters on July 20, 1944. Heusinger was a participant in the plot, although he did not know the bomb had been set for that time, and he was put under Nazi house arrest until war's end. Considered by some...
Next to Heusinger, with the title chief of armed forces, will be Lieut. General Hans Speidel, 58, also an arrested suspect in the Hitler bomb plot. A round-faced man with spare hair and glasses, Speidel served in France, Russia and Italy in World War 11, became Rommel's chief of staff on the Western front. He was teaching history at Tubingen University in 1950 when Adenauer asked him to come to Bonn as an adviser, later sent him to Paris as West German observer to EDC and NATO...