Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge built him a special $75,000 laboratory for his work. Then in 1934 Kapitsa returned to Russia for a scientific convention, and Stalin refused to let him leave. Over the years, a few rumors about Kapitsa leaked out, putting him variously as head of Russia's atomic-bomb program, then as out of favor for refusing to work on the H-bomb, and finally, after Stalin's death, as director of the Soviet space program. Last week, to almost everyone's surprise, Kapitsa, now 71, stepped off a Soviet jetliner in London for a three-week...
...bomb is ready to fall, the button to be pushed...
...Navy task force that carried out the Great H-Bomb Hunt near the Spanish coastal town of Palo-mares more than earned its headlines. But the men who conducted an equally productive part of the search were an unheralded group of scientists and technicians in far-off New Mexico...
Soon after the January 17 collision between a nuke-carrying B-52 and its KC-135 tanker over Spain, a desperate Defense Department turned for help to the Sandia Laboratory in Albuquerque, which conducts bomb-electronics research for the AEC. Sandia scientists promptly requested all available accident data from the task force. With other experts, they pored over interviews with surviving B-52 crew members and witnesses on the ground; they studied Air Force wind-velocity records and the ballistic characteristics and impact points of the three recovered H-bombs. By feeding complex equations into computers, they projected trajectories backward...
Simulated Breakup. Sandia's next step, reports its house organ, Lab News, was to work out what had happened to the lost bomb. Had it broken apart in the air, or come down intact? Had it fallen freely to the land below, or been carried far out to sea on its parachute? To simulate a mid-air breakup, the scientists dropped bomb parts from a high-flying plane at White Sands Missile Range, then photographed the craters made by the parts as they hit the ground. The pictures were rushed to Palomares, where searchers looked in vain for similar...