Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Merom Golan, one of the 17 Israeli settlements in the Golan. Begun a month after the end of the Six-Day War, Merom Golan now has a population of 300, including 100 children. We passed homes under construction. Each house, finished or not, had its red-and-black-striped bomb shelter. When the war erupted last October, the settlement was evacuated. After four days the men returned to work the land. This year they will harvest the first fruits of the apple and plum trees. "We are settlers," says the acting secretary of the settlement, a young emigrant from Rumania...
...from most of the territory in Syria that they had captured last October, and even from some land on the Golan Heights west of the "purple line," as the post-'67 war boundary is colored on Israeli maps. The Israelis were also willing to give up much of the bomb-blasted Golan town of Quneitra and allow a limited number of Syrian refugees to return there. Their conditions for disengagement included a United Nations buffer zone, a limited-arms zone on either side of the buffer and a system of U.N. arms inspections of the thinned-out opposing forces, which...
Burn. Why did this film bomb so miserably when it came out in 1970? Whatever picture companies and elements of the people are responsible for this sure acted like terminal morons. Made by Gillo Pontecorvo, who created Battle of Algiers. Starring Marlon Brando as a British secret agent. Filmed in color in the Caribbean with hundreds of extras. About Dutch (or Portugese--can't remember) colonialism and revolt in the 19th century. And very, very fine...
...actual manufacture of the bomb, the basic information can be gleaned from any number of public documents, some of them published by the AEC. Essentially, all that is needed to achieve a blast is to bring together a sufficient amount of properly shaped fissionable material fast enough to initiate a massive chain reaction. To do that, the Hiroshima bomb used the so-called gunbarrel technique: both ends of a heavy metal pipe were stuffed with U-235 and the charge at one end was used as a projectile. To detonate the bomb, the U-235 projectile was hurled by conventional...
...storage depots. These measures could make it more difficult for do-it-yourself bombers. But perhaps no system is proof against Murphy's Law, which holds that if anything can possibly go wrong, it will. Back in the early 1950s, a routine inventory revealed that a U.S. A-bomb was missing, and no amount of searching succeeded in locating it. As the military sweated, a senior officer happened to visit a dump on a military base. He strolled between piles of discarded A-bomb casings that were about to be offered for sale as scrap. There among the rejects...