Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From a sounding device came a steady hum. At the precise moment when the "K" system would have released a real bomb, the humming stopped (the descent trajectory of the simulated bomb was plotted for official scoring purposes by electronic equipment on the ground...
...Holguin began figuring feverishly, then announced the results over the intercom. The bomb would have landed, quite literally, within a stone's throw of the target. This was better than close enough, since, with the H-bombs SAC planes will carry in combat, a three-mile near-miss would be a kill...
...minute Spokane bomb run began, the wind was at a steady 50 knots. Then, just before the bomb release, it shifted to the northeast and subsided to seven knots. The City of Merced intercom was filled with curses ("We all loused up our halos," said Pilot Speiser later). The hypothetical 1,000-lb. bomb landed less than half a mile from the target-a bad mission in SAC's strict accuracy book. But since the City of Merced had made better runs at Spokane on the two previous lights, the inferior third try, under the "best...
...reading of the pattern that nuclear fallout would follow in the prevailing winds. Twice daily, the bureau will release fallout bulletins. Purpose of the service: to prepare authorities to 1) regulate evacuation routes in case of an attack, and 2) give advance warning to communities along a bomb's fallout trail...
Violent Saturday. Three thugs rob a bank in a picture as simple and as nerve-racking as a bomb; with Victor Mature, Richard Egan, Ernest Borgnine (TIME...