Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atom bomb tacticians believe that the best place to explode a bomb is high above the target, where blast and heat do the most damage. Since the radioactive fission products of such "air bursts" are carried upward and dissipated harmlessly, civil defense workers, with no deadly contamination to worry about, could go straight at the problems of less subtle death and destruction...
...Chalk. According to Wilkinson's plan, each "target city" (seven cities in New York State have been listed as bomb-worthy) would have at least ten radiological reconnaissance teams, dressed in protective clothing, with dust-excluding respirators. In each five-man team, four would have radiation detectors (i.e., Geiger counters or equivalents), the fifth a walky-talky radio for reporting to the control center. Their equipment would be stored at points in a circle around the city, well outside the prime target area...
...Vannevar Bush, "that our possession of the bomb has been the only deterrent to Russian aggression." Dr. Bush predicted that-with faster jet planes, proximity fuses and other developments-Russia would eventually build such a defense that the U.S. would have difficulty in delivering the bomb to any primary target. He added: "When the time comes that we can't get at primary targets, we must have some other means of stopping Russian aggression." An armed force of 3,500,000 would not be enough, he said, adding: "It can't be done by the U.S. alone...
...lines were written last spring when Shaw, seven years short of his target centenary and bored with old age, was to be seen stumping about Ayot Saint Lawrence with a contax camera. Neighbors watched him focus on the village show places. "That must be hard work, sir," said Postmistress Jisbella Lyth. Tiring, said Shaw. Last week the village had a chance to see Shaw's photographs. Bernard Shaw's Rhyming Picture Guide to Ayot Saint Lawrence (price one shilling)* went on sale in Mrs. Lyth's post-office shop...
...pilot hit the enemy. Jet fighters move so fast that the pilot has only a few seconds for firing, and human eyes and brains cannot be depended upon to select those seconds unfailingly. The radar gunsight (still under thick wraps) makes all the calculations automatically. It tracks the target, measuring its distance, direction and relative speed. All the pilot has to do is keep the target inside a circle of light on his windshield. When the enemy plane is in a position where it will be hit, the gunsight knows it -and fires the guns...