Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upcoming test of "Jughead," the 45-megaton bomb, would produce a radius of approximately 6.7 miles of utter destruction and 22.3 miles of severe-to-slight blast damage. Jughead's calculated effects on some major U.S. cities...
Detroit. Aiming point: Cadillac Square. Wiped out: downtown Detroit, Hamtramck, River Rouge, Highland Park, Windsor. Major blast damage: Dearborn, Grosse Pointe, Royal...
...bugles sound, and suicide squads blast through the wire. Two Communist divisions, some 10,000 strong, launch a "human sea" attack against both strongpoints. It is the first big attack since bloody "Phase One" of 17 days before. Objective: Bald Head Hill, 200 ft. high in the southeast strongpoint, commanding all other French positions...
...first thermonuclear test at Eniwetok, in November 1952-complete with a montage of estimated effects of a similar bomb on Washington and Manhattan. And this week Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission returned to Washington from the atomic testing grounds to announce that a second thermonuclear test blast had been "successfully" set off last Friday. This time U.S. voices were calm and collected...
...gunbarrel device, with a bore of not less than two inches or more than ten inches. Purpose: to fire a projectile of fissionable material into a plug of fissionable material at the end of the bore, thus creating a critical mass and atomic blast...