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When the primitive atomic bombs were exploded in the air over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, their radioactive residues were carried harmlessly into the stratosphere. Most of their free neutrons and high-energy gamma rays were "wasted." But the second Bikini bomb (exploded underwater) threw into the air millions of tons of radioactive seawater, which did more damage than the detonation. If an atomic bomb were exploded below the surface of the earth like a pre-atomic blockbuster, it would probably stir up a cloud of deadly radioactive dust over a wide area. Chunks of rubble, tossed like projectiles, might...
...crude, primitive atom bomb that wrecked Hiroshima had the force of only 20,000 tons of TNT. The Nagasaki and Bikini bombs, not much improved, are called "Model Ts" by atomic experts. Last week in Manhattan, before a conference of 250 U.S. mayors, Major General Harold R. Bull, attached to the Army General Staff, hinted at something bigger & better: a bomb equivalent to 40,000 tons of explosive. Apparently an improvement of at least 100% is already...
...Working with corn seed that had been exposed to radio-activity in the Bikini bomb tests, Dr. Ernest G. Anderson of the California Institute of Technology found that...
Career Conference spotlights will swing to the field of radio tonight when Adolph J. Schneider, who handled the Bikini atom bomb tests for National Broadcasting Company, heads a list of four speakers at 7:45 o'clock in Kirkland House...
...Flesch found that the stories were far below his standard. They varied from "fairly poor" to "poor" (his next to lowest grade). He cited one horrible example of a lead: "University of Washington scientists reported today experiments have shown that microplankton organisms act as radioactivity 'carriers' in Bikini waters, keeping the waters radioactive." How many readers, asked Dr. Flesch, know what "microplankton organisms" are? The same story was turned over to the A.P. science writer, Howard W. Blakeslee, to Flesch out. His version: "Discovery of the missing links that will spread dangerous atomic bomb atoms to human beings...