Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fallout. 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 permanent damage seemed to have allayed most fears. Most of the scientists who had opposed the test on the ground that it might do long-lasting damage to the earth's upper atmosphere and the Van Allen radiation belt were reserving judgment. Scientists in New Zealand, the country most affected by the blast, treated it as an interesting scientific experiment...
...high-altitude shot was billed by the Atomic Energy Commission as an experiment to discover what effect a powerful nuclear explosion above the atmosphere would have on radio communications. But its purpose was much broader and more important to the U.S. than that. The blast was principally designed to help develop a defense against large intercontinental missiles-and most of the observations made by thousands of official instruments are still military secrets. In fact, nonofficial observers report that radio communication was not blacked out for as long as expected. Tokyo's communications with the U.S. were back in working...
Most of the observations have not yet been interpreted, but U.S. scientists are cherishing every scrap of data. Eventually they hope to piece it all together to determine what the spectacular blast meant for the security of the U.S. and the gains and perils of probing into space with man's most powerful weapon...
...explosion was the first thermonuclear (H-bomb) device known to have been exploded in North America (all other U.S. H-shots have been in the western Pacific). Generating a force of 100,000 tons of TNT, it was also the most powerful blast ever to be touched off in the U.S. (the atomic bomb that decimated Hiroshima had a force of 20,000 tons of TNT). The Atomic Energy Commission announced that 95% of the blast's radioactivity was either trapped in the ground or returned to earth by the falling debris. Purpose of the explosion: to test...
...Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings, the English Channel has stood as the "moat defensive'' between Britain and her foes, between the "blessed plot" and the "envy of less happier lands." Today, Paris-London jets pass over the Channel tides in three minutes; nuclear missiles would blast across in as many seconds. The balance of envy has changed. Increasingly prosperous Britons, who swarm across to the Continent by the thousands each summer, return with European notions of comfort, elegance and efficiency that have breached England's insularity more surely than any invader...