Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know it was a poet's intuition of the H-bomb...
...than 40,000 feet above the Nevada wastelands. Miles ahead and 10,000 feet below, Sabre jets flashed back and forth across its path, laying down a grillwork of drifting smoke lines. Then the jets turned and sped out of danger. Two minutes later the big bomber released a bomb triggered to explode six miles in the air. There was an orange-white flash, then a fireball about a half-mile in diameter, a shock wave that danced to the ground 75 miles away, and a giant smoke ring in the sky. The first test...
Present theory and practice of air tactics do not call for bunching bombers in fleets, since one plane armed with an H-bomb is plenty for any target. But the capability to destroy an air armada, perhaps of airborne troops, with a missile or two might come in handy...
...make weapons capable of reducing the world to the primitive conditions of the time of Cain and Abel. He even has, within the range of his grasp, means to completely exterminate the human race. Today, scientists can make a good educated guess as to the number of [bombs] needed for total world catastrophe-to scatter to the four winds, in a matter of seconds, the civilization it has taken man so many centuries to put together. No wonder some ask, "Are we not playing with things that belong to God?" The concerted, atheistic threat against all we hold dear...
...passion for military pacts," Nehru said. "Such pacts do change the world, but they change it for the worse . . . The world has fallen into a dangerously simple way of looking at things-that everything and everyone must be Communist or anti-Communist . . . Because a person has a hydrogen bomb, it does not mean that his mind has become as powerful . . . Are we going into this madhouse also, behaving like lunatics like the others...