Word: bombing
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Nuclear science is on the verge of developing a "third-generation weapon as radically different from the H-bomb as the H-bomb was from the Hiroshima-type A-bomb," warned Thomas E. Murray, former member of the Atomic Energy Commission and consultant to the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, last week. The Administration's moratorium on nuclear testing, drawn out to two years by the foot-dragging test-ban talks with the Russians at Geneva, has stopped U.S. progress cold-but "I take it for granted that the Soviet Union is actively developing nuclear technology along this...
Murray did not say so, but he was apparently referring to the so-called neutron bomb, which is designed for use against military forces, kills by showers of neutron "bullets," and leaves little or no residual radioactivity. With the U.S. and Russia both armed only with mass-destruction nuclear weapons, said Murray, neither side can use them without "fear of a retaliatory strike that would be too devastatingly costly." But the new-type bomb would move into this stalemate with great effectiveness, and would be used without provoking all-out nuclear attack in retaliation. Predictably, Murray's warning...
Other Misfire. The prosecution had done no better in attempting to prove that Bayar and Menderes had arranged to have a bomb planted near Ataturk's birthplace in the Greek city of Salonica in order to incite anti-Greek riots in Turkey in support of Turkish claims to Cyprus. The bombing touched off wild disorder in Istanbul, in which 73 Greek churches were destroyed and 4,000 Greek shops looted, with the loss of a vast quantity of irreplaceable religious...
...Colorado and raised on a fruit ranch in Northern California, Libby studied chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley. He got his doctorate in 1933, went on to teach chemistry at Berkeley. But after Pearl Harbor, he plunged into the supersecret Manhattan Project that built the first atomic bomb...
...show, but he wanted to see Kennedy. "All right," a policeman suggested, "you take this raincoat and hat, and I'll take your ticket and see the show." The same cop, when--in one of many false alarms--it appeared that the candidate was finally coming, anounced, "Any bomb-throwers please leave...