Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willing to wait. All week long the Tyrol's quiet villages rang with explosions, aimed principally at the vulnerable high power system. Twenty percent of Bolzano's electricity was knocked out in the first two days. Whole factories shut down. Cars belonging to pro-Italian Tyroleans were bombed. Only one man was killed, a road worker who was blown apart trying to unstrap a bomb from a tree along the Brenner highway. But police averted a major disaster when they discovered and defused a bomb only an hour before it was set to go off under...
...European-styled Valiant has not made up the difference, rising only from 2%_ to 2.1% despite a $100 price cut. Valiant's new and costlier twin, the compact Dodge Lancer, got only a discouraging 1.2% of the market, and the middle-priced Dodge Dart, newly styled with a bomb-shaped tail end, dropped from 5.3% to 3%. The middle-rung Chrysler is a bright spot: it reduced minimum prices, lifted its market from 1.2% to 1.6%. But only one out of every 500 cars sold in the U.S. today is the luxury Imperial...
...prevent that, the Soviets made what seemed to be a few concessions. They agreed to sign a treaty banning all easily detectable blasts in the atmosphere, in space, in the sea, and underground tests of more than 19 kilotons-about the size of the bomb that fell on Hiroshima. In return for that, they demanded that both sides declare a "voluntary" ban on smaller, underground nuclear explosions, which are virtually undetectable without inspection. Meanwhile, said the Soviets, they would heed a U.S. call to work jointly toward better detection methods. To the U.S., the Soviet carrot looked tasty. Russia seemed...
Beyond that, there is the problem of such next-generation weapons as the "neutron" bomb, now a drawing-board idea that testing might bring to reality. Compared with existing nuclear weapons, the neutron bomb would be cheaper and more adaptable to military purposes in the sense that its deadly "bullets" would shower specific areas without long-lasting contamination (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959). The first power to possess the neutron bomb will gain great military superiority. The Soviets, by their own admission, were experimenting with the neutron process as far back...
...thermonuclear reactions from which the sun and the stars get their energy. When war started, he was soon in the thick of the scientific battle. He served first at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, then went to Los Alamos to head the theoretical physics division of the atom bomb project. Had Hitler's empire lasted a little longer, the bomb that Bethe helped build at Los Alamos might well have blown his homeland apart...