Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plane flies over a city, and drops a could of plague on the target, wiping it out. It is not the instantaneous mass murder of the mushroom cloud -- it is the slow mass murder of a contagious, incurable disease...
...Military strategists cannot measure the exact range a virus will cover, the way they can for a fusion blast. Resistance to the disease would be unknown, and would vary with the victims. The problems of delivering the dose, which would have to be in the form of an aerosol cloud, are technically difficult, Meselson suggests. "Even if it could be improved in the remote future," he says, military control "would suffer along...
...nature of the bombing explains the rest. Under orders to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, U.S. bombers zoom in close to the deck for greater precision, thus become vulnerable not only to a dense cloud of flak but also to small-arms fire. Such ground fire takes an even heavier toll than do the surface-to-air missiles that bristle around major targets. "Every farmer over there, I bet, has a pistol or a rifle," says Air Force Major Edward E. Williams, a veteran of the bombing war against North Viet Nam. In dogfights with Red MIGS, though...
...victory was not as sweet as expected, and the host could be pardoned if his appetite was a bit dull. In the election that preceded last week's "victory dinner" in his garden, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato won his party's renomination under a cloud of rebuke from more than a third of his Liberal Democratic lieutenants. His victory thus assured him not only of almost automatic re-election as Japan's Premier in next year's election but of increasing trouble from his party colleagues...
...avoid a perpetual cloud of doubt and distrust, there must be a general reinvestigation of President Kennedy's assassination -- now, before the evidence becomes stale. Such an inquiry should seek to benefit from the lessons of the Warren Commission. Its voting members, as well as its investigators, should be able to devote their full time to the study. They should not be pressed by the White House or any authority to produce their evidence quickly, and they should amass all the evidence before structuring the presentation of their conclusions...