Word: hiroshima
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...after World War II was convicted of crimes involving the unrestricted bombing of defended civilian populations. The Allies had done the same thing in order to destroy enemy industrial centers. Today the U.S. may be hard put to justify the fire-bombing of Dresden or the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all of which seem less necessary in retrospect than they did at the time. But so far, bombing a defended city is not a specific war crime. Given the goal of saving U.S. troops' lives (the rationale for Hiroshima), it can still be called a military necessity...
...their increasingly successful invasion of the U.S. auto market, Japanese automakers have so far relied on low production costs and prices to win American customers. Now Hiroshima-based Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan's fourth largest car manufacturer, is challenging Detroit with fresh technology. In Washington, Florida and Texas, the company has quietly begun selling two compact models equipped with German-designed Wankel engines, which generate twice as much horsepower per pound of weight as conventional piston engines. In California, where Toyo Kogyo will introduce its Mazdas next month, auto dealers have sized up the car as such...
...WATER reactor, like Vernon, has a fuel cycle of one year, which means that the spent-but highly radioactive-fuel is stored in the reactor for a year at a time. Such materials may accumulate to 1000 times the radioactivity of one Hiroshima-sized bomb. Although a reactor cannot sustain a nuclear explosion, the presence of many hundreds of tons of material which is one billion times more toxic than any known industrial substance is an unparalleled hazard, especially during fuel replacement. Such replacement is an extraordinarily delicate operation and, in the case of Con Edison's Indian Point...
There is no solid evidence that any missiles have actually been placed on launchers. Nonetheless, if Pentagon forecasts prove correct, Peking could have a force of 80 to 100 MRBMs, with ranges of 1,000 or more miles and 20-kiloton warheads (Hiroshima size) imbedded deep in Chinese soil by the mid-1970s. The missiles would be no threat to the U.S., but they would be within reach of Peking's Asian neighbors, notably the Soviet Far East...
EDWARD TELLER, physicist, is also a specialist in inconsistency. After Hiroshima, when many scientists who had worked on the atomic bomb left weapons work-Teller urged the development of the hydrogen bomb. During the McCarthy headhunting years, when many of these same scientists publicly defended their accused colleague, Robert Oppenheimer, Teller gave a testimony which, in effect, crucified Oppenheimer and ended his public career...