Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Research, and Francis Perrin, High Commissioner of Atomic Energy. Said they: "The dangers that can result from a multiplicity of atomic-bomb explosions-particularly H-bombs-are real...
...When exploded on the ground, an H-bomb throws into the air something like one billion tons of pulverized material. Floating for years in the upper atmosphere, the dust may cut the strength of sunlight. It may act as condensation nuclei, stimulating rainfall, and thereby changing the pattern of the winds. Such modifications of climate will not neces sarily be good...
...Neutrons from an H-bomb turn atmospheric nitrogen into large amounts of radioactive carbon-14, whose half-life is 5,600 years. Absorbed by plants, it eventually enters the tissues of animals and humans. Results: unpredictable...
...bomb raises appreciably the general level of the earth's radioactivity. Even a slight increase is likely to have important genetic effects. Experimental reasons for fearing this outcome, said Martin, are well established...
...hustle-bustle of the H-bomb age, the North American Hutterites* are remarkable for their ascetic isolation and puritanical dress. Scattered in some 100 farm settlements across the Dakotas, Montana and western Canada, 8,000 Hutterites live under a strict religious communism: no member may hold public office; all property is jointly owned...