Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russia in Eastern Europe, Byrnes and Bevin initiated and conducted the great drive for free elections there. Then Churchill's Fulton speech, Truman's Containment and Devil theories, the Berlin blockade and the formation of NATO followed in regular fashion. On September 23, 1949, the first Soviet A bomb "hung the threat of total destruction over Western Europe." And when Truman, early in 1950, embarked on a drive for the H bomb, the frantic arms race commenced...
...Deeper the Shelter, the Bigger the Bomb...
Atom Testing: Almost since the moment that the first atomic bomb burst upon Hiroshima, the free world and the Communists have been talking-and disagreeing-about control of nuclear weaponry. In October 1958 the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and Britain began test-ban talks in Geneva. The conference finally broke up, after 353 sessions, without the slightest sign of substantive agreement. The U.S. and Britain have insisted on control by inspection; Russia has not been willing to allow meaningful inspection...
...school students cannot spell. Another story speculated for Observer readers on what it would be like if Algerian-style plastiqueurs were loose in New York: "On any given Saturday night in Times Square a car would pull up to the curb and spray machinegun bullets into the crowds ... A bomb would be thrown into New York's Carnegie Hall . . . Taxi drivers, bus drivers and mailmen would be killed in every section of the city. Crowded Harlem tenements would be blown up on an average of one a month...
...hydrogen off its surface. Some of this gas is attracted by the white dwarf's intense gravitation. When the layer thickens, some of the hydrogen is forced down into contact with the star's degenerate core, which is as hot as the heart of an exploding H-bomb. Suddenly a nuclear reaction races through the hydrogen, turning it into helium and releasing a vast amount of energy. The little dwarf star flares up. many times brighter than its great partner. Once the crisis is over the stars waltz peacefully through space once more, waiting for the dwarf...