Word: triggering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every half-hour the radio grimly warned: "The Saigon-Cholon area is not considered secure. Firefights and sniper fire are expected to continue. Do not travel on foot. All vehicles must have an armed escort." Flak-jacketed American MPs, weapons at the ready, roared along the tree-shaded boulevards. Trigger-happy police fired frantically in the air to halt vehicles approaching checkpoints and barricades strung about the city. Tough ARVN marines and paratroopers blasted their way through narrow alleys in running gun battles with the Viet Cong, 700 to 1,000 of whom were believed still mingling with the city...
...minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger material in the four shattered H-bombs and the contaminated pieces of the B-52 have been found...
...determine if any of the plutonium-uranium 235 trigger or contaminated wreckage melted into-or even through-the 9-ft.-thick ice in the fire that followed the crash, technicians have taken ice-core samples that will be an alyzed for radioactivity in U.S. and Danish labs. If it is determined that any substantial amount of hot debris penetrated the ice and sank to the bottom of Baffin Bay, 800 ft. below, deep-diving submersibles (TIME, Jan. 19) may be called in to recover it, just as they were in the Palomares crash...
Warren warned that the court's action might then trigger a fusillade of parallel attacks by persons required to register dealings in such items as narcotics and distillery equipment...
...band played fortissimo. Then the drums beat. Then there were speeches in English, French and the local language, Twi. At last Yaa was handed up to the platform, where a technician stood poised with his jet gun. He placed it against Yaa's arm and pressed the pedal trigger. Yaa opened her mouth in a gap-toothed smile...