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Over the course of four years, Harvard students responded to the Cold War as tensions flared inside and outside Harvard Yard. Senator Joseph McCarthy targets Harvard University in his quest to weed out alleged communists in America. The United States develops the hydrogen bomb, and the first color television is sold. For the Class of 1957, these events were the background to their time at Harvard...
...United States tests the Hydrogen Bomb. Students and professors hold debates on atomic warfare. Harvard is declared a “secondary target” by Cambridge Civil Defense Director Edmund H. Burke. It is determined that in the event of nuclear war, Harvard would have to be evacuated immediately...
...General Officer Commanding, mend Camp Five, says: "God has given us everything in the Delta: water, fish, oil. And yet we are suffering. That is our cross." mend recently issued a press release vowing a new campaign of "attacks against creek- and land-based installations around the Delta. Car bombs will be freely utilized. We will share our pain with all Nigerians." Since the election, mend has kidnapped a score of foreign oil workers and launched several bomb attacks. In an interview with Time, Yar'Adua acknowledged the seriousness of the Delta's security worries. "Yes, the situation in that...
...launched, the vessel, the world's oldest research sub, has become a model for deep-sea exploration. Owned by the Navy and operated out of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Alvin has made more than 4,120 dives to date. Among the most celebrated: recovering a lost hydrogen bomb in the 1960s and leading explorer Robert Ballard to the remains of the Titanic in nearly 13,000 ft. of water, off Newfoundland, in 1986. Froehlich...
...suicide bombers to blow up hundreds of Israeli civilians. Militants say that in the camp they have no shortage of young volunteers eager for martyrdom. As a parent, Omar says the last thing he wants is for his young kids to heed the fatal, seductive call of the suicide-bomb recruiters...