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Undergraduates during the early Sixties had grown up with civil defense drills--"ducking under the desk at the flash, and so on," as Hertzberg puts it. But the former campus reporter, president of the Harvard Liberal Union and current editor of The New Republic is one of several Harvard students of his generation who recalls almost no contemplation of the actual consequences of a nuclear explosion: "It was rather more general than that, a fear that we would somehow end up in nuclear war, but not exactly what would happen in that war." George B. Kistiakowsky, a retired chemistry professor...
...Oakland flash breaks the record and keeps on going
...Brooklyn. The package was addressed to Joan, 54, a supervisor of guidance counselors in New York City's public schools. Standing in her kitchen, Mrs. Kipp tore off the brown wrapping paper and found the Quick and Delicious Gourmet Cookbook. She opened the cover. Suddenly there was a flash, and two .22-cal. bullets tore into her chest. Kipp came running into the room and discovered his bleeding wife on the floor, gasping, "A bomb! A bomb!" Three hours later, she was dead...
...bomb detonated in a flash of orange. A growing white circle indicated that he had destroyed his opponent's forces. But the weapon he chose was so powerful that it also wiped out his own troops. His only comment: a subdued "Holy smoke." Says George Smith, one of the program's designers: "The rapidity of casualties surprised them...
...Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulders asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't would...