Word: bombs
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With 9000 fans screaming "Goodbye Harvard," the Big Red twisted the knife ever deeper, adding a 79-yd. touchdown bomb from third-string quarterback Chris Metz to a streaking Jim Burry with less than a minute to play. The final score capped an afternoon that Crimson fans and players will want to forget quickly...
Mandelbaum seems overawed by the basic stuff of his topic: the awesome and ever-increasing destructiveness of nuclear weapons--with some justification. But consequently Mandelbaum has treated all the actors as larger and simpler than life. The bomb death; the U.S. good; Clauswitz...
...never appears in this book; presumably the widely-held belief that the world was rife with commies had no impact on U.S. military strategy. Presumably the Korean war raised no questions about the use of nuclear weapons; Mandelbaum asserts only that Eisenhower's veiled references to The Bomb helped end the war. Presumably, in writing the history of American strategic thought in the last three decades, the Vietnam war is worth no more than a paragraph of simplistic analysis; for Mandelbaum the war was "first a laboratory...then a full-fledged war, and finally a national disaster...
...commission has held hearings this fall on the contract award process, Miett said. He added he is more interested in hearings on corruption. "It's like a time bomb that we've been waiting for months to go off. That's what's going to blow the town sky high," he said...
...novel. McMahon is a professor of applied mechanics and biology at Harvard. Nine years ago. he wrote Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel. It told of a teen-age boy growing up among the scientists at Los Alamos. N. Mex., as they calculated their way toward the atomic bomb. Here the author sets his sights backward by 100 years to spoof the pre-Darwinian notion of nature as the beneficent servant...