Word: bombing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shelter lies under 40 inches of radiation-resistant material, can house and feed 1.500 employees for two weeks. Water is drawn from underground wells, and a pulsating communications center is equipped to send and receive short-wave messages. The shelter can withstand blast and fallout from a 20-megaton bomb five miles away...
Setting the Example. Yet without being over-paternalistic, government at the federal, state and local levels has at the very least a responsibility for setting a civil defense example. So far, the show has been sorry. The White House, to be sure, is equipped with a yawning bomb shelter that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt's day, and a stand-by Pentagon, tunneled deep under Maryland's Catoctin Mountain, is equipped and ready for use as a wartime defense headquarters. More than 30 top Government agencies are prepared to evacuate to secret "relocation centers" in a 300-mile...
Kiloton, a unit used in measuring the energy of a nuclear weapon, is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of 1,000 tons of TNT. A megaton is equivalent to 1,000,000 tons. The Hiroshima bomb was a 20-kiloton bomb...
Some droned 30,000 ft. above Eastern population centers on fake bomb runs. Some roared in just 500 ft. above coastal waters. All radiated spurious electronic signals to confuse defense radar. In Colorado Springs, NORAD's commander, General Laurence S. Kuter, 56, sat in front of a giant battle screen in a windowless building, directing the simulated interceptor action that was taking place over 14 million square miles...
...upper and lower lips wrestle while they read. These Records for Illiterates-there are hundreds-give the word on everything from Human Fertility to Communist Trickery; they tell how toTrain Your Dog, fly an airplane, ride a horse; they even advise, in ministerial tones, what to do If the Bomb Falls...