Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massive Menace. By military standards, the dan ger of a Red strike against the U.S. is greater now than ever before. The Soviet Un ion is very nearly capable of a knockout blow delivered without warning. In 1949, when the Reds first tested an atomic bomb, they lacked the means to strike directly at the U.S. They have since built a massive intercontinental striking force: Aviatsiya Dalnevo Deyst-viya, known to U.S. airmen as SUSAC (Soviet Union Strategic Air Command...
...mass of enemy planes might give us a hard time." Currently, U.S. defenses have serious defects: ¶ The Skysweeper guns cannot shoot fast enough to hit a supersonic jet or far enough to defend a target, as the gun's range is shorter than the radius of H-bomb destruction. Any bomber within gun range is already close enough to inflict ruinous thermonuclear damage. The Nike rocket has 1,500,000 parts, is complex and unpredictable. Better guided missiles and more launching sites are necessary...
Ever since the 1946 Bikini A-bomb tests demonstrated what an atomic bomb could do to an old-style naval task force, U.S. admirals have been contemplating their naval strategy in an attempt to define the Navy's place in modern atomic war. Oddly enough, the hydrogen bomb gave them an unexpected assist: even land-based airmen recognized that a Russian H-bomb attack could be devastating to U.S. airfields, saw virtue in a mobile, seagoing air power capable of delivering atomic attack from unexpected directions...
Faint Beginnings. Fermi fled from Mussolini's tyranny and reached the U.S. n time to become a key man in the atom-bomb project. Many honors came to Fermi, but they did not make him less be-oved by his colleagues and students. His ife after the squash-court event was omething of an anticlimax (it could not lave been otherwise), but it was happy and productive. He had a zest for life (skiing, swimming, mountain climbing) as ell as for knowledge...
...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...