Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard began its 1962 football season on a familiar note - fumble - but quickly composed itself to blast Lehigh...
Russia and Red China predictably accused the U.S. of committing a crime against mankind, but international reaction to the blast was generally calm. U.S. assurances that the explosion would not create hazardous fallout or do any kind of permanend damage seemed to have allayed most fears. Most of the scientists who had opposed the test on the ground that it might do longlasting damage to the earth's upper atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts were reserving Judgment. Scientists in New Zealand, the country most affected by the blast, treated it as an intereating scientific experiment--and a pleasure...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning and by the and of a year it will be almost undetectable...
...prominent scientists, both American and foreign, advised the United States that such a test would cause gross distortion of the earth's magnetic and radiation fields and consequent difficulties for several fields of scientific inquiry. For example, Professor Lovell of the Jodrell Bank. Observatory warned very early that the blast would greatly hinder radio astronomy and might create new dangers for men in space...
...coking coal needed by FMC's Idaho phosphorus furnaces, for example, led to joint experiments with U.S. Steel Corp. to produce coke from low-grade local coal. The ersatz coke has been proven in FMC's phosphorus furnaces, and is now being tested in steel blast furnaces. If successful there, says Davies, it could mean a revolution in the world steel industry. Similarly, an ingenious FMC device to detect blood spots on eggs during automatic packaging led to a $4,000.000 Government contract to develop an automated post office, where letters would be scanned and sorted by machine...