Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These plastic mannequins appear to be of the same "family" that participated in the Nevada atomic bomb tests...
...parties-all faced the same kind of trouble: the noisy outcries of leftist factions demanding that their parties outbid others in proposing compromises with the Russians. In Britain, Hugh Gaitskell challenged the nation's most powerful labor union by sternly rejecting its demand that Britain renounce the H-bomb. In France, Guy Mollet bluntly told his followers that if it is neutralism they want for France, he would quit as leader of the party. In West Germany, Erich Ollenhauer did quit. Putting the pieces together, TIME'S editors found the order of the day for Europe...
...something about it," said the President at his press conference. Secretary of State Herter, on the road to Geneva, would probably sound out De Gaulle on coming to the U.S. Some U.S. authorities believe that De Gaulle may stall until the French test-fire their first atom bomb in the Sahara this summer, and can thus enter NATO's inner nuclear club with stronger cards...
...massive counter-strike and the morale to get the nation back on its feet. Yet, despite the urgent recommendations of the Gaither report, the Rockefeller defense report (TIME, Jan. 13, 1958) and most civil-defense experts, not a single city or state in the nation has a realistic nuclear-bomb shelter system-a system that on a national scale could save many millions of lives and perhaps make the difference between defeat and survival...
...voltage. "Are you smart enough to understand everything I explain to you?" he asked. "Da," grinned Kozlov. Pointing out a relatively simple, 2,300-volt pump, Rickover cracked: "Even a politician can understand this." A few minutes later, without batting an eye, the admiral announced: "We can detect your bomb explosions." Kozlov guffawed. Said Rickover: "I wanted to see how long it would take you to react...