Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme to fire a controlled nuclear explosion as a warning. Where? Why inside allied territory, of course. Presumably the seismic quaver on Russian monitoring instruments would bring Soviet tanks to a shuddering halt. There were, however, no volunteers for the territory to be used for this backyard bomb. Equally unimpressive was the suggestion to fire a nuclear warning shot at sea, a latter-day version of the old shot-across...
...suspend Murray. Earlier, Smith had refused a similar request from the trustees, but now he had no choice. Black militants responded by calling a student strike that quickly spawned hit-and-run raids on campus buildings. Labs were ransacked and equipment ruined. Minor fires were set and a stink bomb was thrown into a library reading room...
...Some of those teams have laid down and died for Yale as soon as they read their press clippings. I don't think Yale has the depth we do, but they can score anytime and they're always looking for the bomb. They're always looking for the bomb. They're going to have to prove themselves to me personally," he said...
...that President John F. Kennedy was conscious of military fallibility when he so brilliantly resolved the Cuban crisis in 1962. With due respect to our dedicated and loyal military leaders, let us hope that our President will never subordinate his judgment to theirs, particularly in this age of the bomb...
Died. Lise Meitner, 89, Austrian-born nuclear physicist, whose basic research was vital to the development of the atomic bomb; in Cambridge, England. In 1938, after three decades of pioneering work in radioactivity with Chemist Otto Hahn at Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Lise, a Jew, was forced to flee to Sweden-just when she and Hahn were on the verge of achieving nuclear fission. When Hahn sent her the details of his experiments with uranium some months later, she completed the immensely complex mathematical calculations proving that he had indeed split the atom and, in the process, released...