Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retaliation for Ma'alot, Israeli jets bomb Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Kissinger flies to Damascus and returns with new Syrian proposals...
...prevented only if Ulster's Protestants band together in political and military opposition to union. A soft-spoken lawyer whose voice seldom rises above a whisper, Craig last week talked with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter in his suburban Belfast home, which is still scarred by a recent terrorist bomb attack. The views of King Billy...
Practically on the day this chilling book reached the public, someone with religious or political convictions detonated four car bombs in Dublin and a town to the north, killing 28 people. The event gave special interest to Author McPhee's thesis, which is that right now one fairly skilled technician, using easily obtainable equipment and information, and easily stolen uranium 235 or plutonium 239, could make a nuclear fission bomb. The bomb certainly would be small enough to fit into a Volkswagen, and perhaps into a golf...
Like a number of people now concerned with the problem (TIME, May 13), McPhee assumes that sooner or later someone will do it and will hold a city, or cities, at ransom. The motive might be idealism or simple criminality. Whatever his (or their) reasons, McPhee notes, the bomb makers would have to establish credibility and so presumably would make two bombs. The first would be set off as a free sample, and the second would be offered at a price...
Writing about nuclear physics and the creative process of a bomb maker for an audience that does not understand mathematics, moreover, is a bit like writing music criticism for the deaf. McPhee manages very well, using the life and thought of Theoretical Physicist Ted Taylor as a way into the subject. The reader, balancing his head carefully so that the neutrons won't spill out, is led an enormous distance, to the point where a good many of Taylor's calculations seem understandable...