Word: targets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Several of the "strategists" spoke up about the bomb last week. On their minds were such practical matters as Korea as a target, the U.S. supply of bombs, the possible need for them in the future, i.e., in war with the U.S.S.R. They warned against using the bomb...
...target in Korea," said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike, "on which to use such a valuable and costly instrument of warfare...
...seen in the inky blackness. Sixty yards offshore a white headlight seemed to spot the whaleboat for a minute. Then it shifted back inland. All hands flattened in the bottom of the boat. Then they heard the rumble of a freight train heading toward the tunnel that was their target for the night...
...year-old World War II fighter pilot, landed at a South Korean airstrip one day last week to report a highly successful strafing mission. Hess had spotted four Communist boats crossing the Kum River east of Taejon. He burned and strafed the boats, wheeled and roared back at the target again. Fleeing Red soldiers were scrambling up the river bank. Hess's six machine guns laced a pattern of lead along the bank. "I looked back," he said, "and there were 30 soldiers stretched out flatter than pancakes." He grinned, then checked himself. "It's a terrible thing...
...Chinese Nationalist government in its back-to-the-wall stand on Formosa (see "The U.S. Tragedy in Formosa"). To take Formosa, the Chinese servants of the Kremlin had assembled a million tons of wooden shipping around the mainland port of Amoy. They were ready to attack the island. Target date for the invasion: June...