Word: amchitka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national security, and his rhetoric is laced heavily with law-and-order. Yet he stands foursquare with Hubert Humphrey on civil rights. He is for the ABM and the SST, and is considered by some the candidate of the military-industrial community. Yet the vain suit to stop the Amchitka blast was filed under his Environmental Policy Act. Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, the junior Senator from the state of Washington, is, in sum, a bundle of divergent views, who at the same time conveys a solid image, a thoughtful integrity. This week he will become the second surviving declared candidate...
...aftermath of the explosion of a Spartan warhead a mile below the surface of Amchitka Island, the world's environmentalists waited anxiously for the postoperative reports on what was surely one of the greatest shocks man had ever inflicted on his supportive earth. There were no earthquakes, no tidal waves. To date, it has been a case of no news being good news...
...initial shock did cause numerous cliff falls and rock slides along Amchitka's shoreline. A flurry of barely noticeable tremors followed as the tormented earth adjusted itself around the 800-ft.-wide subterranean cavity created by the blast: 38 hours later, there was a last convulsive shudder as the cavity collapsed. But the danger of radioactive releases was apparently past. The radioactive material is virtually sealed in place by rock compacted by the pressure of the monster explosion...
...dull black cylinder on a mock Spartan anti-ballistic missile waited buried an incredible 6,000 feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled...
...Canada, opposition swelled to a feverish anti-American pitch. Canadian newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons denouncing the Amchitka blast. A bitter parliamentary debate caused the State Department and White House to assure the Canadians that their objections had been considered. Demonstrators closed major bridges connecting Canada and Michigan for several hours. U.S. consulates were stoned. Five American-owned companies closed down operations following threats of terrorist bombings of U.S. firms...