Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sahara last week, the French set off a bomb atop a tower and then studied the effects on rows of uniformed manikins lined up in parade formation and on some 1,000 mice, sheep and goats tethered around the site, including a lamb born moments after the blast. It was France's third nuclear test...
...semi-industrialized Israel, with the help of France, is building a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor with the capacity to produce plutonium, a key ingredient for both a fission and hydrogen bomb. By 1964, estimated some U.S. atom experts, Israel could in theory set off a killingly effective atomic blast...
...capability and can set off explosions." For the moment, plutonium is expensive and hard to make. But uranium is now a glut on world markets; with the expected development of a new, cheap German method of getting fissionable material by centrifuge (TIME, Oct. 24), the cost of a nuclear blast can be scaled down to the poor nation's level. Says Physicist Herman Kahn: "With the kind of technology that is likely to be available in 1969, it may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and technical Hottentot it is true, would be able to make bombs...
Taken hunting in Kent by Prince Philip, Britain's bonnie Prince Charles, 12, knocked down a pheasant with the first blast from his .410 double-barreled shotgun. Before the morning's shooting was finished, father and son had bagged 20 birds. All this filled Philip with paternal pride, but the birds had scarcely been plucked when Britain's vigilant League Against Cruel Sports fired its own inevitable burst: "Here you have a child who is taught to love animals and birds on one hand and is then told, in the same circles, that it is a social...
...pistol blast, close up, can rupture an eardrum, and similarly sudden, unexpected sounds produce widespread, potentially harmful changes in bodily activity, as the body's defensive mechanism reacts to the unknown stimulus. Blood and intracranial pressures rise, perspiration increases, muscles contract sharply, flow of saliva and gastric juices is radically reduced, and digestion ceases. Even short-term exposure to high-intensity noise-above 135 decibels-can cause a breakdown in the ear's sensitive basilar membrane...