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Word: underground (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Imported Reds. The top INRA staffers under Castro and Núñez Jiménez are Attorney Waldo Medina Méndez and Production Chief Oscar Pino Santos. In 1951, the last head count on Communists before the party went underground, both were registered Reds. They have brought in six Chilean Communists to take over key INRA posts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Animal Farm | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...shot-a ig-kiloton explosion-would have been read as an earthquake, and therefore ruled out for inspection. New ammunition was a study made by the Rand Corp., at the suggestion of Dr. Edward Teller, director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Rand mathematicians theorized that any underground explosion can be "decoupled" by placing it in a large enough cavity, and thus can defeat the detection network. If anybody cared enough to dig a cave 3,000 ft. down and 950 ft. in diameter-an excavating job equal to removing a mass of material equal in volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Undetectable & Underground | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

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