Word: blast
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...aimed at Boston. The Faculty report noted that if Boston were the target the shelters would be useless (see graph), but if the enemy fires on missile bases and airfields, the basements will protect against the radioactive debris that will begin to fall about one hours after the blast. Two such targets are Westover Air Force Base (74 miles from Cambridge) and Otis Air Force Base (60 miles). Megatons Radius (miles...
...when Charles A. Coolidge '17, Acting President while President Pusey was touring the Orient, appointed a Faculty committee to examine the possibility of protecting the University from fallout. The committee began meeting in November, 1961, and issued a report of its recommendations last March. While the possibility of erecting blast shelters was rejected, a "modest" fallout program seemed worthwhile. John C. Colburn, an architect in the Buildings and Grounds Department, conducted a survey which seemed to indicate that shelter could be found in present basements for the University's 21,500 faculty, staff, and students. Additional space might house another...
Boston College fans out-sang and the Eagle band out-played their Crimson counterparts, but Harvard did the scoring in Watson Rink last night to blast B.C. 3-1, and revenge last week's Bean Pot Tournament loss. The varsity never trailed in what proved to be a classic game of goalies, defense, and masterful line-juggling...
Reprinting liberally from his former pronouncements, Mr. Hoffman has now gathered all his arguments and theories for a final, cataclysimic blast; the only difficulty is that The Tyranny of Testing sounds like...
...dense disk of the Milky Way Galaxy and at the safe distance of 30,000 light-years from the center. If a giant star were even now exploding at the galactic center, the earth and its inhabitants would have a good chance to survive the effects of the blast, which they would not know about for at least 30,000 years...