Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven: B-52, Titan, Atlas, Minuteman, Polaris, Skybolt (an air-launched ballistic missile), and the A³D, an H-bomb carrier plane...
Deep in the Sahara last week, the French set off a bomb atop a tower and then studied the effects on rows of uniformed manikins lined up in parade formation and on some 1,000 mice, sheep and goats tethered around the site, including a lamb born moments after the blast. It was France's third nuclear test...
...silence, but the Soviet Union threatened to resume nuclear testing if "Western powers proceed" with atomic explosions. Red China added its own denunciation, saying that "world opinion condemned" the blast, and will probably protest the French series right up until the day China is ready to explode its own bomb, when Peking can say unctuously that the act was forced upon it by the "aggressive behavior" of others...
...French nuclear program is a small one and designed more to impress its friends than dismay its enemies. So far it has done neither. U.S. specialists are convinced that the Sahara bomb is a crude device and that the French are still a long way from packaging a bomb small enough to be carried by missiles-which France also lacks. But French nuclear persistence has a nuisance value. Clearly, France belongs in the Geneva atomic test-ban talks scheduled for Feb. 7. But as a negotiator, Charles de Gaulle may well be almost as difficult as the Russians...
...promising young Italian engineering student when he was invited to become the late great Physicist Enrico Fermi's first graduate student. The invitation paid off. Fermi and Segrč collaborated with three other Italian scientists in perfecting the slow neutron process that was essential to the production of the atomic bomb. In 1938 Segrč came to the U.S., and six years later, like Fermi, became a U.S. citizen. Although he feels certain that most scientists do their best work before they are 30, he excepts himself, continues with his Nobel-prizewinning work in the weird never-never land of "anti-matter...