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...crude bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rush jobs intended to be carried in a B29. There was little reason to keep their weight down, since the B-29s of the time could carry 20,000 lbs. from Saipan to the target. Long after Nagasaki, the weight of the first bombs leaked out. It was about...
...basis of comparable figures for the V2, the Viking might have taken the bomb to a target more than 200 miles away. If the Norton Sound were stationed at the proper point off the U.S. East Coast, Vikings could hit either New York, Philadelphia or Washington, or all three...
...obviously important to reduce the weight of the bombs as much as possible without too great loss of efficiency. Heavy bombs of the Hiroshima type can be dropped only from large, vulnerable aircraft directly over the target. Light bombs might be carried by small, fast, elusive jet bombers, or by rockets or other guided missiles launched from a safe distance...
...rules still contain a demand that a full membership list be available to the Dean's Office upon request, a clause which had been the target of protests by College groups of leftist tendencies and by the Young Republican Club...
...addition, vandalism was also reported at Cambridge Field, where four trees were destroyed; at Abbey Street, where windows in the National Biscuit Company's plant were smashed; and in Charlestown, where a candy shop has been a constant target for the past week...