Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still (in uneasy probability) the only nation armed with the atomic bomb; the U.S. Army & Navy, before demonstrating it at Bikini, ordered a survey of caves for use in the day when its bombs might not be complete protection against another...
Last fortnight Ho and Vo sent conciliatory letters to several French officials, suggesting a renewal of negotiations. But while General Louis Morlière, the commander at Hanoi, was reading his letter, a bomb disabled the power plant. Simultaneously the French hospital was attacked, not only by Vietnamese from outside but by helpful comrades who had smuggled themselves in as patients. Said Ho: "The battle will be long and difficult...
...Though Dr. Hagiwara could not yet give a complete description of his earthquake, he was rather proud of it. Its force, he said, equaled 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ergs, a hundred thousand times as strong as an atomic bomb...
...detonation of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, gave Leet and his seismographs an excellent opportunity for measuring ground motion. Although the bomb was exploded in the air, its energy was delivered to the ground in a single vertical impact producing both airborne and earthborne waves...
...yachting cap, double-breasted blue jacket with a saucer-sized gold highway badge pinned on the inside, astounded his guests with the simple announcement: "You're looking at the next President of the United States." Later he disclosed that "I have the perfect defense against the atomic bomb...