Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...project has a tangled history, but three facts are most significant. First, it is overwhelmingly expensive; development costs alone, before production is scheduled to begin in 1974, are estimated at 4.5 billion dollars or more, more than twice the cost of the development of the atomic bomb. Each plane will sell for 40 million dollars...
...here-on-the-scene reporting would send the public into the streets screaming as did the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast. Charged Director Peter Watkins, "The BBC was really afraid that the truth about the effects of nuclear war would result in a massive protest to ban the bomb...
Students for a Democratic Society--SDS has an interesting background at Harvard. Its predecessor, TOCSIN, was vital in the early 1960's at Harvard; it was intellectually oriented and lasted as long as ban-the-bomb was an issue, but the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty wiped out TOCSIN's importance. In 1964, the old TOCSIN remnants and several new groups combined to fill the vacuum for civil rights and peace activities. The TOCSIN tradition was one of sophisticated analysis and objectivity, but in the past year there have been trends both towards more emotionally satisfying tactics of confrontation and towards...
...surgical precision necessary to hit only certain targets in the North Vietnamese cities, Navy pilots recently began using a new, superaccurate torpedo-shaped missile that is called "the Walleye" (after the various species of fish, particularly the American pike, that have protruding eyes). The bomb's eye is a television camera in the nose of the warhead. To fire the Walleye, the pilot points the bomb at the intended target until the camera has locked onto the object, which must be bright and distinct enough to stand out from the surroundings. Then, as the missile is released and glides...
...sets out to delineate the psyche of a revolutionary. In this case, the revolutionary is a young university student, known in the book only as A., who out of dislike for his bourgeois parents drifts from membership in a mild radical party to participation in an assassination plot with bomb-throwing anarchists. Any work on this subject inevitably demands comparison with some 20th century masterpieces, including Malraux's Man's Fate and Camus' long essay The Rebel. In that company, Koningsberger is hopelessly out of place; what is more, his character is also out of date...