Word: proof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news that a plane carrying an atomic bomb had crashed without setting off a nuclear explosion. Plan behind the leak: to ease British uneasiness about SAC bombers operating over the British Isles. Behind the news is the story of how U.S. scientists have worked for years to build accident-proofing devices into Atomic Age bombs so that they cannot be accidentally set off in a crash-or even by blasts of high explosives. Proof of the scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least four bomb-lugging U.S. aircraft have crashed without nuclearexplosions-one between Dayton...
...Strategic Air Command's 2,000-odd B-47 medium-jet bombers and hundreds of heavy 6-52 intercontinental jet bombers hold an overwhelming power margin over the U.S.S.R., reported the monthly Missiles and Rockets magazine last week. The proof, said M. and R., is that SAC aircraft are conducting "numerous and continuing" reconnaissance missions over the U.S.S.R., and the Russians have not been able to stop them. "It is true that modern Russian fighters attack our bombers with major advantages of altitude, speed and maneuverability. It is also true that they score hits. But so far no attacks...
...narrative that after a deft slow start keeps gathering fascination, Suddenly Last Summer is further proof that Williams at his best is unsurpassed in the American theater at weaving dark spells, and unequaled at writing long, full-breathed dramatic arias-first the mother's (well done by Hortense Alden), then the girl's (done brilliantly by Anne Meacham...
...basis for this speculation lies in the neat figure-eight pattern through which The Prowler traced his activity. Many of the more intellectual officials point to the symbolic significance of the "eight" as conclusive proof that the affair was plotted by a Harvard...
Civil Defense. "Our civil defense program and that of our allies is completely inadequate...In the age of the ballistic missile, the known capability of a society to withstand attack will become an increasingly important deterrent." Specifically, the U.S. must develop an attack-proof radio warning net, begin building radioactive fallout shelters coast to coast (but a fantastically expensive blast-shelter program deserves more study), disperse stockpiles of food to meet famine and industrial reserves to meet economic chaos (with immediate tax incentives for companies that build new plants away from target areas). Beyond this obviously costly program...