Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Early in April, a series of plastic bomb explosions upset Paris. To many, the terrorist activities brought panic, but to some they only confirmed certain hypotheses about things in general. Shrugging off the results of an April 4 explosion near the Paris Bourse, M. Papon, Prefect of Police, declared precisely and firmly for the record: "Nothing astonishes me in this century...
...made his request clearly and firmly at the White House and had been turned down pending an analysis of the needs of Government agencies. Undismayed, Ellis decided to go ahead with his budget plans, with or without Administration approval. The bigger budget was needed, he insisted, to dig more bomb shelters, improve existing shelters, stockpile medicine and mobile hospitals, and expand the OCDM educational program. "I haven't received much encouragement yet," Ellis admitted, "but it is a vital interest of the President to expand and extend this program...
...quilts, tights and jeans, marching to bagpipes and jazz, they ranged from beatniks to such U-types as socialite Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Observer film critic and wife of Antony Armstrong-Jones's best man and five Eton schoolboys carrying a suitably supercilious banner: "Even Eton Says Ban the Bomb." The common purpose of all the marchers: to make publicity for the unilateral nuclear disarmament of Britain and an end to NATO bases on British soil...
Some ban-the-bombers hope that by giving up the bomb, Britain would be spared in case of war. Others argue that even surrender is preferable to extinction ("I would rather be Red than dead"). The Manchester Guardian's David Marquand has called the ban-the-bombers "the new blimps." "The nationalism of Aldermaston," wrote Marquand, "is uncannily like that of Colonel Blimp. One of the main unilateralist arguments is that if Britain ceased to rely on nuclear weapons, other countries would be obliged to follow suit. That argument could only take root in a country which...
...anxious atomic age, the normal human array of senses is no longer enough. Radiation from nuclear reactors, radioisotopes. particle accelerators, bomb-test fallout, X-ray machines and countless other sources cannot be seen, felt, heard, smelled or tasted. And radiation from any of these sources can fatally fry a man before he has the faintest notion that anything is amiss...