Word: corale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chiefly to the altitude at which the weapons are exploded. The 1954 H-bomb test that made "7,000 square miles of territory ... so contaminated that survival might have depended on prompt evacuation" (according to the AEC's own reports) was exploded on a tower on a small coral island. Its fireball dug a deep crater and tossed millions of tons of pulverized coral into the air. This material, made highly radioactive by contact with the fireball, was the poisonous "atomic snow" that settled on boats, islands and water 220 miles away...
...high-yield H-bombs of the current test program were dropped from aircraft and exploded high above the surface. Thus their fireballs did not concentrate their fury on a small area of coral, but spread it over miles of water. As a result, not much pulverized material was carried upward. The total radioactivity produced by such a bomb may be large, but most of the potential fallout is distributed high in the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine particles or even single molecules. Such impalpable stuff is slow to fall. Not much would fall in any one place...
Picnic (McGuire Sisters; Coral). Country-style harmony applied to the theme music from the film Picnic, with rather touching results...
...explosions, which took place high in the air, had tossed most of their "hot" residue into the stratosphere in the form of extremely fine dust. The explosion on March 1, 1954 behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium...
Also, District of Columbia, William W. Hooker of Kirkland; Florida: Stanley J. Bargteil of Winthrop and Coral Gables; Philip M. Catalano of Winthrop and Miami; and Michael W. Rinehart of Adams and Coral Gables...