Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dare tamper with the forces heretofore reserved to the Almighty." Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who directed the creation of this weapon at the Los Alamos lab, was reminded of a passage from the Hindus' sacred Bhagavad Gita: "If the radiance of a thousand suns were burst into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty...
...always the human figure swimming, boating, napping, walking. His people were rarely recognizable I faces that are ambiguous"), and they often seemed blurred into their environment. In both Bather and Ocean and Green Canoe, flesh takes on the color of earth; the forest melts into water, and sky blends into sea. To some degree, a figure by Park mute and thickly sculpted, can b seen simply as one more of nature's forms...
Little Fuss. All qualified observers agreed: the Skybolt-B-52 combination makes a splendid weapon. (In Britain, even before last week's test, R.A.F. pilots were itching to strap the rockets under the wings of their Vulcan bombers.) A combat-ready B-52 will carry four Sky-bolts under its wings, each armed with a nuclear warhead that will make it as devastating as the submarine-borne Polaris missiles that are now in service. Both in eventual impact and versatility on the way to its target, Skybolt is an impressive testament to nuclear age technology...
Since B-525 can take off from any of many fields and fly in a few hours to within easy reach of enemy centers, they are far more versatile than any fixed launching pad. Their Skybolts can approach targets from any direction, forcing an enemy to watch the whole sky rather than concentrate on already computed missile routes. And no effective defense is likely against the Skybolt's nuclear warhead, which will plunge out of space like an ICBM that has come from the far side of the earth...
...feeling of glorious relief takes you, and then you relax. are alone in the sky, and all is quiet...