Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seeger repeatedly cited the example of a book which explained how one can assemble an atom bomb. "Would you like such things available on bookstands?" he queried the Nieman Fellows...
...stooped man of 55 bundled himself into his worn overcoat and ratty fur hat, walked down seven flights of stairs and made his way through a noontime snowstorm to a public phone booth. It was by now a familiar routine for Andrei Sakharov, foremost builder of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, winner of the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize and leader of the Russian human rights movement. On that day, a friend had brought a report of yet another arrest, and it was Sakharov's self-imposed duty to inform Western journalists, who would tell the world...
...Moscow State University, he went to work in the war industry. After World War II, he studied with the theoretical physicist (and later Nobel laureate) Igor. Tamm. Soon he was at work on the Kremlin's No. 1 priority project: development of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb. "When I began working on this terrible weapon, I felt subjectively that I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power," Sakharov recalled years later. "It was a natural point of view shared by many of us, especially since we actually had no choice...
...Bomb Bursting...
...speech, which Korry said would "break open the first major scandal of the Carter administration," was delayed for approximately 15 minutes by a bomb threat reported to the Harvard Police...