Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME "stringer," Kai Schou. A Nobel prize winner and one of the leaders in the fellowship of physics whom Oppenheimer first met at Cambridge University, Bohr had escaped from Nazi-occupied Denmark to collaborate with Oppenheimer and the other scientists in the research and development of the atomic bomb...
Philosopher Bertram Russell, 76, who reluctantly renounced pacifism in 1941, reluctantly warned a London conference of students and teachers that the West must either fight Russia before she has the atom bomb, or "lie down and say 'Come and govern us, have concentration camps, do as you like.' " It would be a sad decision, he admitted, because "there are only two independent states in the world today-Britain is not one of them. After an atomic war only one would be left...
...Superfort over Japan, Staff Sergeant Henry E. Erwin, of Alabama, picked up a burning phosphorus bomb with his bare hands, tossed it out a copilot's open window. Despite his searing burns, Erwin lived to have the Medal of Honor pinned on his bandages. Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, of New York, severely wounded on Saipan, refused to retreat, was left propped against a tree, with a pistol containing eight rounds. Later, when his body and empty pistol were found, eight Japanese lay dead around...
Tacho rammed a Chesterfield into a holder, squinted off toward the Pacific, and grinned. "Arévalo set out to bomb me last spring. Hell, I didn't even move from my house. The trouble with a stunt like that is that the plotter doesn't think it can be turned against him. Right now I'm going to buy the same A20 that Arévalo was going to use against me. I take these boys' toys away from them whenever I can." Tacho's belly shook with laughter as he flopped back into...
...start of World War II, Blackett became a key man in Britain's scientific war effort. He developed bombsights for the R.A.F. and antiaircraft techniques for the Battle of Britain, became one of Britain's chief contributors to the development of the atomic bomb...