Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warning & Lesson. For days, damage assessors could not board the ships that stayed afloat because of radioactivity in the water. It was another warning of what navies in the atomic age would have to face in insidious, invisible death if their ships escaped the bomb's first blast. The other chief lesson of Test Baker was that even so stout a hull as the Saratoga's was like matchwood if a bomb burst within half a mile. Transports and destroyers with much thinner skins, but twice as far away from the bomb, suffered hardly...
...only protection against the bomb was distance. And no man could be sure of maintaining a safe distance...
...grabbing what she wants in areas under her control, Russia operates on the principle that possession is 9.99 points of the law. In the unique matter of the atomic bomb, the U.S. and not Russia is in possession. Yet last week Russia, afraid of any infringement of her sovereignty by any semblance of world government, turned down a U.S. offer for international atomic control...
When it took this position, Moscow risked alienating the very large segment of world opinion which sees in the atomic bomb the ultimate argument against unlimited national sovereignty. Apparently, the Kremlin figured that its complete freedom of action was more important than its reputation...
Astronomers take the atomic bomb in stride. They know there are more terrible ways in which this planet might be destroyed. Last week Astronomer Robert Coles of the Hayden Planetarium summed up, in Sky and Telescope the latest "astronomical facts concerning the end of the world": About a ton of pulverized meteorites fall on the earth's surface each day, do no damage. But, points out Coles, the famed 1908 meteorite that fell in northern Siberia showed what a meteor could do. It knocked forests flat for 30 miles, blew a man off his doorstep 50 miles away...