Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...starless, but in the last hours of June the forecast was for clearing weather. By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights. It was Able-day for Operation Crossroads and the explosion of the world's fourth atomic bomb...
Alongside the plane was a tent in which Manhattan District engineers had assembled "The Thing." A mobile crane had hoisted it from the tent to a trench beneath the plane's open bomb bay. Hidden by canvas from all but a superselect few, The Thing was drawn up into the bay. All that could be told about it was that it was big enough to have a foot-high picture of Cinemactress Rita Hayworth pasted on its side. The Thing was called Gilda (after Miss Hayworth's latest movie...
MOSCOW--Soviet newspapers charged today that the Bikini atom bomb experiment had been an aggressive act and the United States was trying to subjugate Latin American countries with its Inter-American defense plan and an upsurge in economic penetration...
ABOARD U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY IN BIKINI LAGOON, TUESDAY--The atom bomb test explosion sank or damaged half of the 73-ship target fleet in Bikini Lagoon but failed to kill some of the goats left aboard the battleship Pennsylvania and fish still were swimming pla- cidly today in radioactive waters...
...history's fourth explosion of nature's fissionable elements, this time a precise, scientific evaluation of the bomb's destructive force applied to naval surface craft riding "dead duck" at close anchorage, three ships went down, a fourth was missing and 32 others were scorched, set afire or twisted in hull or superstructure...