The Pentagon refers to them as collateral damage, the unintended and regretted victims of bombs gone astray, or of the uncontrollable destruction when targets are hit.

On CBS Sunday night, George Clooney and a starry cast did a live black-and-white remake of "Fail Safe," the cold-war nightmare about nuclear bombs gone awry.

Finding the bomb gone, The Shadow simply closed the door of the humidor; then put the cigar boxes in at the top.

"Have the bombs gone off yet?"

Course and the bomb gone on the broke the winches and that, and that had gone so far, you know, that timber, that has crushed the timber all, more or less all together.

"Two-FivE-Two, bomb gone!"

Suddenly, the Ulysses was out in the clear, and the Heinkels, all bombs gone, were harrying her, attacking her incessantly with cannon and machine-gun, ravening wolves with their victim on its knees, desperate to finish it off.