Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic energy] proposals advanced by the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. reflect not so much divergent ideologies as the different stages of the development of atomic energy in the two countries. Were the positions reversed [and] the U.S.S.R. had the bomb the Russians might well have proposed a plan along the lines of the Baruch report; it s not as magnanimous as it sounds. And the Americans undoubtedly would have rejected...
...BIKINI ATOLL--The floor of Bikini Lagoon was a junkyard of naval might today, testifying to the terrific power of the underwater atomic bomb whose explosion sent 11 vessels to the bottom and heavily damaged at least four others...
...covered, radioactive waters of the lagoon still prevented a closeup survey of the damage to what was an 87-ship target array, but the tonnage scoreboard for the first two controlled tests of the bomb's power against naval strength heavily favored this submarine burst. The score thus...
Furry, formerly active in work on the Manhattan District project which led up to the successful development of the atomic bomb, is now a member of the Cambridge branch of the national organization of atomic scientists...
...midsummer than at any other time of the year, Swedish military authorities had ample reason to doubt whether the ten flashing things that passed over their country during the last two months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden last week, military authorities prescribed "special alertness" for amateur...