Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense expenditure,"said the conservative Financial Times, "is directly competitive with vital exports ... It seems increasingly likely that [the H-bomb] has turned the cold war into a prolonged struggle for economic domination of the world. In that struggle ... capacity of the British steel industry or the level of British exports may avail more in the end than current military strength...
With Britain's H-bomb expert, Sir William Penney, Eden examined supersecret atomic arms depots, wearing a long white smock and rubber boots as protection against radiation. Next week he will set off for Scotland, where the cruiser Glasgow will take him to sea. The 58-year-old Prime Minister is scheduled to transfer by wire from the Glasgow to a British aircraft carrier traveling at full speed...
...third and last bomb drop was on the northwest corner of an Earle M. Jorgensen steel company building in Los Angeles. This was an important run for Major Holguin. About six miles from the target was the Cheli Air Depot, named for Ralph Cheli, an Air Corps Medal-of-Honor winner who died in the same Japanese prison camp in which Holguin spent two years. "Every time I go into Los Angeles," says Holguin. "I put one in for old Ralph." He did it again this time: the City of Merced's theoretical bomb landed a couple of city...
...week, after four months of sleuthing, bolstered by a proffered $100,000 (Hong Kong) reward, Hong Kong police issued a warrant for the arrest of one Chow Tse-ming, a $25-a-month airfield employee who had helped clean out the plane during its stopover, and, presumably, planted a bomb in the starboard wheel-well. Because the actual deaths occurred far beyond the Hong Kong police jurisdiction, Chow could only be charged with "conspiracy to murder" (maximum penalty: ten years). They would also have to find him. One month after the air crash, Chow fled to Formosa...
Even heavier elements can probably be made by the neutron-fattening process or found in bomb debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...