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development of thermonuclear bombs
( in nuclear weapon: Further refinements )
...configuration proved, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were designed and initially tested during Operation Castle in 1954. The first test of the series, conducted on March 1, 1954, was called Bravo. It used solid lithium deuteride rather than liquid deuterium and produced a yield of 15 megatons, 1,000 times as large as the Hiroshima bomb. Here the principal thermonuclear reaction was the...
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discussed in biography Cooper, James Fenimore
...that he developed with the old American Revolutionary War hero Lafayette, he was kept well-informed about Europe’s political developments. Through his novels, most notably The Bravo (1831), and other more openly polemical writings, he attacked the corruption and tyranny of oligarchical regimes in Europe. His active championship of the principles of political...
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development of thermonuclear bombs nuclear weapon
...configuration proved, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were designed and initially tested during Operation Castle in 1954. The first test of the series, conducted on March 1, 1954, was called Bravo. It used solid lithium deuteride rather than liquid deuterium and produced a yield of 15 megatons, 1,000 times as large as the Hiroshima bomb. Here the principal thermonuclear reaction was the...
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role of Wayne Wayne, John
...the orphan boy he has reared (portrayed in adulthood by Montgomery Clift in his first screen role) and the modern values he represents. Wayne did not work with Hawks again until Rio Bravo (1959), a film born of Hawks’s and Wayne’s dissatisfaction with the popularity of High Noon (1952), the Gary Cooper western in which citizens of a western...
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discussed in biography Álvarez Bravo, Manuel
...(1934). In 1939 he was asked by André Breton, one of the founders of Surrealism, to provide a photograph for the cover of an exhibition catalog, and the resulting image, The Good Reputation Sleeping (1939), which depicted a bandaged nude lying amid cactus buds, was among Álvarez Bravo’s best-known works. Breton also published many of Álvarez...
city, capital of Guerrero estado (state), south-central Mexico. Chilpancingo lies in the Sierra Madre del Sur along the Huacapa River, which descends through the inland flanks of the mountains. In pre-Columbian times, the Olmec left remarkable cave paintings in the nearby Juxtlahuaca caverns, which include an extensive tunnel network and a subterranean lake. Spanish conquistadores founded Chilpancingo (“Place of Wasps”) in 1591. It was the site of the first Mexican congress, convoked in 1813 by José María Morelos y Pavón. The prefix de los Bravo (“of the Bravo [family]”) was added to its name in honour of its native sons and heroes of the revolution, Leonardo, Victor, and Nicolás Bravo. Battles were fought at Chilpancingo during the wars of independence and in the Mexican Revolution (1910–20). Chilpancingo’s economy depends almost entirely on the Autonomous University of Guerrero (founded 1869) and on employment with government agencies. Light manufactures include processed foods and alcoholic beverages. The city is a market for corn (maize), sugarcane, bananas, livestock, and lumber produced in its hinterland. It is on the Mexico City–Acapulco highway and has an airport. Pop. (2000)...
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