Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Development tests of new weapons. Ogle's scientists will be trying to improve the vital weight-yield ratio-a bigger blast from a smaller package. Special attention will be paid to the nuclear warhead of the Nike Zeus, the missile being developed by the Army to intercept enemy warheads as they hurtle down on the U.S. To find out how the blast of a Nike Zeus will affect a missile at high altitudes, the scientists will make at least one test of the weapon on the warhead of an Atlas, one of the prime missiles in the U.S. arsenal...
...earn some profit while operating as low as 50% capacity, it contends that it needs far higher profits than other manufacturing industries to support its uncommonly high capital investment. And it can show such high profits only when demand is so brisk that plants operate at close to full blast. The industry earned a thumping 14% on assets when it poured at 94% capacity during the first quarter...
Nuclear Testing. Is going ahead with plans to resume U.S. nuclear tests in the atmosphere right on schedule, with a blast due in April's third week...
...Committee is in no position to assess the relative probability of this 'fallout primarily' condition as compared with the other contingencies implying blast and fire effects, and we doubt whether anyone can reach reliable conclusions on this question. Within the Committee, there was a wide spectrum of opinion as to the probability that the third contingency would actually obtain in the event of war. Nevertheless, the Committee majority was agreed that the likelihood is sufficient to justify the University in taking the modest steps recommended to provide fallout shelters in its buildings...
Furthermore, any structure providing reasonable protection against fallout also has some degree of inherent protection against low intensities of blast or heat. Where inexpensive actions could increase resistance to such effects, the Committee believes they should be taken, especially where they affect the continuued integrity of the fallout shelters themselves...