Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Would he release the highly publicized Gaither report (TIME, Dec. 2) that warns of the perilous position of the U.S. in its arms race with Russia and advocates a stepped-up arms program and vast bomb shelter project? No, said the President, he would not. He needs the advice of Government and citizen panels. In order for them to know what they are talking about they have to be entrusted with top-secret information. Therefore he must always insist that the "conclusions they reach and the advice they give me is of a privileged character...
...Project WS-131B is an experimental supersonic hydrogen-warhead item with a 350-mile range. And Convair's new supersonic 6-58 jet bomber carries a B58 Pod that can be used, among other things, as a powered air-to-ground missile or a free-fall hydrogen bomb...
...surroundings as clean as a kitchen, as cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...
...next cast his eye on a company that was nearly twice as big as both Canadair and Electric Boat together: California's Consolidated Vultee Aircraft (Convair), sixth largest U.S. airframe manufacturer. Convair-had been having its ups and downs, and Owner Floyd Odium ler in developing the hydrogen bomb...
...things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists of a refugee girl, victim of multiple rape in the liberation of Berlin, a Danish naturalist, a U.S. magazine photographer, and a nuclear scientist who has just refused to go on helping to make the basalt bomb. Each in his own way understands something of Morel's strange passion...