Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom bomb detonated underground would leave a radioactive crater which would be dangerous indefinitely, and the "hot" dust blown into the air might paint a broad band of silent death many miles downwind. The only safe way to simulate such an explosion is to use a "low-order" chemical explosive and scale up its effects theoretically to full atomic proportions. Last week at desolate Buckhorn Wash, Utah, Army engineers came the closest yet to simulating an atomic blast...
Shock Test. In atomic lingo, a "nominal" bomb is the one used at Hiroshima, which released as much energy as 20,000 tons of TNT. The Buckhorn Wash "bomb" (160 tons of TNT) released 1/125th as much energy. But because the explosive effect of a bomb decreases only by the cube root of its comparative size, the jolt it gave the rock around it was roughly one-fifth as powerful...
Complaints & Exasperations. There was little doubt that one top Briton had a complaint: the U.S. should have passed the word to a soldier it implicitly trusts, Field Marshal Alexander, who was touring the battlefront and visiting his old friend Mark Clark just before the bomb bays were loaded. But Alexander himself, though surprised by the raid, said he approved of it. That set off Bevanite demands for Alexander's head...
Still catching up on Battle-of-Britain bomb damage, Eton last week dedicated a splendid new window for its cherished 15th century chapel, but it was hardly the kind of window old Etonians might have expected...
...Atomic City. Neat little B-budget thriller about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies (TIME...