Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...studies of young Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and his coolly beautiful portrait of Margaret on her 29th birthday, made his reputation as a "society photographer." It is a label he disliked, and Tony prowled London streets for odd and amusing shots, and covered fascist rallies and anti-A-bomb parades...
Simple Subtraction. In Sunland, Calif., students and teachers at Mount Gleason Junior High School took calmly several telephone threats that a bomb was hidden in the auditorium, since the school has no auditorium...
...local real estate taxes and construction costs could be deducted from state income tax. "Put the overall program into effect as soon as possible," urged the study committee. "We may have less time than we think." "The legislature wouldn't pass a mandatory program like that until a bomb had been dropped," said one Albany politico. Said Rockefeller: "I would rather face political suicide than have our country or state wiped out by a nuclear attack because we did not have the courage to face up to our problems...
...though little noticed, France has developed a solid and tidy atomic capability. The fissionable substance in the French bomb was plutonium. The French have been producing plutonium since 1948, now get their supply from three reactors located at Marcoule, near Avignon in southern France. Together the three turn out about 100 kilograms of plutonium a year. In anyone's nuclear language, this is a respectable amount of plutonium, and with it France can turn out an estimated twelve atomic bombs a year, in the 20-200 kiloton range. By the end of 1961, when two reactors now under construction...
...expects France to have much difficulty in progressing into the more advanced arts of nuclear devices. Asked how long it would take the French to convert the Sahara test device into a compact bomb, one U.S. expert said: "They'll do it within months." With plutonium and heavy water already in hand, the French are expected to be able to produce an H-bomb in much less time than it took the U.S. and Russia, both of whom had to spend many months and even years in theoretical studies to determine whether a hydrogen explosion was even feasible...