Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Oppenheimer '26 was a loyal and great American when he directed the development of the atomic bomb, three University professors who worked on the bomb project declared Sunday in the New York Times...
Kistiakowsky, along with another scientist at Los Alamos, was in charge of the final assembly of the bomb before the test. He and Bainbridge were the last men to inspect the weapon before it was detonated...
What would happen next depended on the Mau Mau leaders. They apparently disagreed. In the Aberdares, prisoners reported afterwards, Field Marshal Russia warned of a white man's trap: "Those who surrender . . . will be massacred by an atom bomb." But into General Gatamuki's camp came Truce-Talker Kareba, whom the British had released. He persuaded Gatamuki to give himself...
...hours, Luciole, a battered C-47 of countless missions, heaved reluctantly down the runway and climbed through the moonlit mist. The crew started preparing flares, and their job was typical of the makeshift means the French must so often use in Indo-China. The flares were designed for bomb-bay release, but tonight they would have to be shoved by hand from the C-47's door. The delicate business of arming them must be done after takeoff. A sergeant flung one flare tail cap on the floor and swore. "It's defective," he grumbled. "This happens...
...worked up from the opposable thumb to the implosible bomb, he has learned endless ways to change his environment. He can raise or raze forests, reverse rivers, level mountains or reshuffle atoms, but he cannot alter the fact that his health depends, as always, upon the food he eats, the water he drinks and the air he breathes. To safeguard these, he has to work, in an endless spiral, for more complete control of his environment...