Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have grounds for criticism in the fact that the latest facts about these effects are not published in Fallout Protection. But on the basis of most of our knowledge, the book makes the judgement that delayed fallout is not so serious a problem as the immediate radioactivity after a blast. I only wish that Mr. Gruen would accept the book for what it is--advice based on present knowledge. If Mr. Gruen were looking for an analysis aimed at an audience with a higher educational background, he might obtain the McGraw-Hill report "Nuclear Attack and Industrial Survival" which...
...heights above Algiers. Leroy made the bureaucratic mistake of ordering typewriters from a supply house. When the crates arrived, they contained an unexpected item-a 20-lb. dynamite bomb which exploded ten minutes after arrival, reducing the villa to four shattered Moorish pillars and a pile of rubble. The blast reportedly killed 18 of Leroy's men and four S.A.O. prisoners in the cellar...
Though the Government's official shelter booklet uses 5-megaton bombs as the basis for its calculations, bigger warheads, with greater destructive power over a wider radius, must certainly be reckoned with. A 50-megaton blast could ignite frame houses up to 60 miles from Ground Zero, burning or asphyxiating many people in basement fallout shelters-or tumbling their houses down on them. Scientists also think a nuclear blast might produce a fierce fire storm, which would suck up oxygen over large areas and kill all in its path-but no one can be certain...
Shelter Rattling? Millions would die in a thermonuclear war, but millions of others might be saved by a prudent shelter program. Since no one knows where the enemy would drop his bombs, cheap fallout shelters are a modest insurance for everyone, even in big metropolitan targets. Shelters affording some blast and fire protection are not much more expensive than fallout shelters, and could also be a measure of insurance. Community shelters, to which the Government has now switched its emphasis, are probably more effective than others, in terms of equity as well as effort...
...R.D.X. in the U.S.) and TNT, into a rubber compound base, and can be exploded either electrically or by fuse. Terrorists prefer the plastic bomb for two reasons: it is so stable that it can be cut into strips and easily transported; at the site marked for the blast, it is adhesive enough to stick to almost any surface ? under a window ledge, on a mailbox, or around a fence or lamppost...