TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE BOMB»
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10 QUOTES WITH «THE BOMB»
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the bomb.
The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target!
Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.
Happiness is the bomb cosmetic! When I'm smiling, sometimes I'm giving thanks for all the things I have rather than worrying about the things I don't.
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to change the course of history.
What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.
The first stage had been all over before the doctors even knew they were dealing with a new sickness; it was the direct reaction to the bombardment of the body, at the moment when the bomb went off, by neutrons, beta particles, and gamma rays.
Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE BOMB»
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the bomb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the bomb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
But sixteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu believes the Americans are lying and that it will never be safe to return. He must find a way to stop the first bomb before it is dropped . . . even if it means risking his own destruction.
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Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most ...
This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. Bomb is a 2012 National Book Awards finalist for Young People’s Literature.
He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israel's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology it needed, to the ...
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Making of
the Atomic
Bomb
Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention.
5
Dark Sun:
The Making Of
The Hydrogen
Bomb
Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and ...
Howard Zinn's personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
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Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy
The world’s foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations examines Iran’s current nuclear potential and charts America’s future course of action.
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Paranoia,
the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films
Cyndy Hendershot argues that 1950s science fiction films open a window on the cultural paranoia that characterized 1950s America, a phenomenon largely triggered by use of nuclear weapons during World War II. This study uses psychoanalytic ...
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Hiroshima:
The World's
Bomb
The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE BOMB»
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the bomb is used in the context of the following news items.
Boston bombing suspects planned Times Square attack, Bloomberg …
The brothers had five pipe bombs and a "pressure-cooker bomb" -- the latter similar to the bombs used in the Boston blasts -- with them in the SUV that they ... «CNN, Apr 13»