Bricks had been crammed into windows, apparently for protection against American bombs.
The only defense against bombs that sought out the heat of a human body was an inhumanly cold body.
The experts were testing new hardening techniques that American security officials say are the best hope for protecting planes against bombs.
In Vietnam, smoke from smudge pots was used as a defense against laser-guided bombs.
In the war, some Underground stations were used as shelters against bombs.
The addition of armor to the flight deck offered aircraft below some protection against aerial bombs.
If this bunker is hardened at all, it's against conventional bombs.
What this means is that ships can now have some protection against guided bombs released from a great height.
Our landing rockets had to be expended against presumably hostile bombs, and we are now unable to return to Earth.
"I think," Joe told him, "that we can make a defense against bombs from Earth with our empty tin cans."