Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting took place in Cholon, the Chinese sector and a traditional stronghold of anti-government feeling. As elsewhere in the city, where resistance was heavy in house-to-house fighting, the ARVN warned the civilians out of the area, then called in helicopters to strafe and Skyraiders to dive-bomb...
Hardening Line. In the Pueblo affair, despite a general willingness to give diplomacy a chance to work, pressure mounted swiftly for a retaliatory strike. The Navy, some said, wanted to bomb the Wonsan MIG base. South Korean Premier Chung II Kwon urged a massive response, warning that "a lukewarm U.S. response would encourage the Communists to engage in another Korean War." But President Johnson was cautious, in part because his critics have accused him so often of overreacting during crises, notably-if unfairly -in the case of the Dominican Republic. His carefully measured response was also determined...
Thus far, the H-bomb's fail-safe systems have not been foiled even by shattering falls from high altitudes, as happened at Palomares. In that accident, two hydrogen bombs split open on impact and spilled plutonium, dusting nearby farms, which had to be tediously decontaminated. The same kind of low-level alpha radiation, officially described as "negligible," was discovered on the icebound bay off northwestern Greenland last week. The U.S. airmen who detected the radioactivity reached the blackened, 500-yd.-long crash site on Eskimo dog sleds, the only means available in the swirling snow and 50-m.p.h...
Burial Problems. In 25°-below temperatures, a 75-man team of Air Force and civilian experts sent in under Major General Richard O. Hunziker, SAC deputy chief of staff for materiel, moved ahead with search-and-recovery operations. They soon found assorted bomb fragments and debris, including four parachutes that had been stored in the weapons' tail assemblies, strong indications that all four H-bombs were smashed to bits in the skidding crash and explosion. But some of the nuclear machinery may have melted into the 8-ft.-thick ice or sunk below into 800 ft. of water...
Allied fire. One reason why some theologians feel especially sensitive to this issue is a residual sense of guilt for Christianity's failure to protest against morally debatable acts of World War II by the Allies. "The churches did not responsibly cry out against the saturation bombing of Dresden, about dropping the A-bomb," contends Jesuit John Coleman of Alma College. As a consequence, he says, churchmen today tend "to be very sensitive about the responsibility of silence...