Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conceivable objectives of surface testing include development of cheaper, more powerful, and more efficient warheads, try-outs for anti-missile missiles, and refinement of the "clean bomb." Tactical atomic weapons can be tested underground. A cursory examination of the technical factors suggests that the United States can afford to avoid surface testing...
...Committee says that the policy of having bomb shelters, or "life boats," "would full you into a false sense of security," and "would cause undue alarm." It is not possible for these effects to coexist since they are opposites. I would be interested to find out which the Committee really thinks would happen...
Local Fallout. Not much of this information has been made public, but besides estimating the power of the Russian blast at 30 megatons, the U.S. confirmed the fact that it took place at 12,000 ft. above the ground. The bomb was carried aloft by a rocket, perhaps, or, more likely, suspended from a captive balloon. However it was hoisted, the bomb's height was carefully chosen to minimize local fallout. If the fireball did not touch the ground before it stopped expanding, little or none of its radioactive material would mix with pulverized soil blown...
...ground to penetrate a thick formation of rock salt. From the shaft's bottom, a 1,116-ft. horizontal tunnel leads into the salt and curves back on itself in a giant hook. At the tip of the hook a small (5-kiloton) bomb will be exploded in December. If all goes well, the explosion will seal the horizontal tunnel by collapsing the hooked end, and it will leave a cavity partly filled with molten salt...
...effect on girls is what sociologists call "a self-fulfilling prophecy." Marriage looks like salvation. Vague fears about the Bomb make it more so. What a girl expects from her education drops back from high goals of professional, intellectual or artistic attainment to a desire for "finish" and for the graces of motherhood...