Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...treated with tolerant amusement, Civil Defense officials suddenly found themselves in demand. When the supply of booklets on civil defense ran out in Atlanta, the Constitution published a full page of excerpts. In Boston, Civil Defense Director Charles Sweeney-who as a World War II pilot dropped the A-bomb on Nagasaki-estimated inquiries were "up 1,000%." A Los Angeles bombshelter builder reported: "Now we have to screen the moderately serious inquiries from the damned serious inquiries...
...arms race: "Now the United States is arming and we are, too. We are spending money and energy in preparations to destroy people. We are making nuclear tests. But what the hell do we want with tests? You cannot put a bomb in soup or make an overcoat out of it. Nevertheless, we are compelled to test...
Nikita Khrushchev's nuclear fireworks displays over the Soviet skies last week were a devastating shock to the illusions of a small but hardy Western breed: the ban-the-bomb campaigners, who are dedicated to the dubious proposition that any political fate is preferable to the horror of atomic war ("I'd rather be Red than dead"). Covertly but vigorously backed by local Communists, the ban-the-bombers typically make U.S. military bases their target in the hope that with the U.S. gone from their homelands, they will have a better chance of sitting out a nuclear holocaust...
...week in the wake of Russia's new tests, the T.U.C. reversed itself, resoundingly defeated an effort to renew the resolution. Instead, the members approved by an impressive 3,730,000 majority Gaitskell's policy supporting continued British participation of NATO and retention of a British nuclear bomb. A resolution seeking to oust U.S. Polaris bases from Britain was rejected by a 1,554,000 majority...
...Kaoru Yasui, to whom the Russians in 1957 awarded a Lenin Peace Prize for his labors as head of the anti-American Japanese Council Against Atomic Bombs, perspired through a press conference trying to explain away the council's recent resolution to brand the first nation to resume bomb tests as the "enemy of humanity." The loss of face was too much for Yasui. Next day he delivered his own questionnaire in writing to the Russian Ambassador to Tokyo, Nikolai Fedorenko. His questions: "Does the Soviet government really intend to take up the power policy pursued by the imperialists...