Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of a "nominal" (Nagasaki-type) atomic bomb, the heat cooks the skin up to two miles away. But if a person happens to be looking at the detonation, he will certainly be blinded permanently at more than four miles away, and even at a greater distance his eyesight will be seriously damaged...
...cause is a simple optical principle. The burning effect of the bomb's heat on exposed skin diminishes as the square of the distance (twice as far away, it is one-fourth as strong). But the eye is a lens that concentrates heat and light in a spot on the retina. As distances increase, the spot grows smaller but remains as bright. At four miles away, a nuclear fireball 90 feet across forms a brilliant spot on the retina 1/300th of an inch in diameter. This is larger than the fovea centralis, the part of the retina that...
First of all. the President had some statements to make about the subjects he had picked as of most interest: farm prices, secret agreements, the atomic bomb (he is convinced that Russia has it), economic controls and taxes. Then he opened the conference for questions on those subjects first, on other things if time allowed. Exactly 33 minutes after he walked into the room he gave the reporters a quick grin, waved goodbye and walked out. thus ignoring the Roosevelt-Truman custom by which the senior White House correspondent, U.P.'s sleek-haired Merriman Smith, ends press conferences with...
Arthur Godfrey told his radio listeners last month that if an atom bomb should be dropped on the U.S., the job of keeping Americans calm and well-informed would be handled by two men: Godfrey himself and Ed Murrow. He explained: "They chose us two because it's pretty tough for guys to imitate our voices. You'd know when you heard my voice or Ed Murrow's voice that these were two guys you could depend on, and nobody was giving you any applesauce, see? That's the reason...
...Head a special H-bomb committee...