Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once the Czars and their nobles made merry. Jauntily, Nikita Khrushchev moved among his hard-drinking guests, smiling and shaking hands like a ward boss. Once, captured by an excited female comrade, he let himself be whirled through a few dance steps to the accompaniment of shouts of "Molodets!" (bravo). Later, somewhere in the background, half-drowned out by laughter and the clatter of dinner plates, an orchestra burst into the strains of an old song...
...help at all, but Dr. Bullen figured out the exact times of all four blasts. Apparently the AEC is a creature of habit: it exploded all its H-bombs at an exact multiple of five minutes after 6 p.m. Greenwich mean time. According to Bullen's figuring, Test Bravo (which killed the Japanese fisherman with radioactive fallout) exploded at 45 minutes, zero seconds past...
...public might never have got excited about peaceful radiation, but radioactive fallout from nuclear test explosions is more dramatic. On March 1, 1954 came Test Bravo, the gigantic U.S. thermonuclear explosion in the Pacific that sifted "death ash" on Japanese fishermen 71 miles away. Public anxiety increased when it became known that Bravo had made the whole of the earth's atmosphere detectably more radioactive...
Even before the Bravo explosion, the AEC had begun to check worldwide radioactivity and is still at it. In the gardens of U.S. employees abroad, pans exposed to the sky collect rain and dust. Their catch is sent periodically to the AEC along with foreign cheese and other, foodstuffs. Another AEC importation: foreign human cadavers for radioanalysis...
Science in the Defiles. SETAF stakes its job in a three-point pattern. Headquarters, stationed in ancient Verona, and Task Forces Alfa and Bravo,* in Vicenza, are assigned to defend Italy's northeastern frontier (Austria and Yugoslavia); about 150 miles to the southwest, at the Italian port of Livorno, is Task Force Sierra, which supplies Alfa and Bravo with everything from carbines to carefully shrouded atomic warheads. If war comes, Alfa and Bravo can take aim on or fan out into the painstakingly mapped passes and defiles of the nearby Alps with astonishing mobility. With...