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...initial Soviet H-bombs would create powerful shock waves (throwing warhead guidance systems off course), searing temperatures (high enough on the periphery of the fireball to incinerate other warheads) and a flood of radiation (highenergy gamma and X rays, plus neutrons, which would wreck a warhead's electronics). The blast would also produce the deadly vacuum characteristic of all thermonuclear explosions, destroying almost all the atmosphere in an incoming warhead's path and effectively ending its maneuvering ability. Any warheads surviving these multiple perils would probably be burned up by frictional heat as they plunged earthward at more...
...sense of real adoration for what Joanne can do," adds the film's writer Stewart Stern. "He's constantly trying to provide a setting where the world can see what he sees in her." He has directed her twice since then, in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and The Shadow Box. In the first of these, their pretty blond daughter Nell (then 13, now 23) played opposite Joanne...
...Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (directed 1972): I may not have been able to make the transition from stage to film. Too much theater and not enough cinema. I screwed up there...
...first American to orbit the earth--Hoffman graduated from Scars dale High School. At Amherst College, Hoffman followed his scientific bent, majoring in Astronomy, and graduating first in his class,summa cum laude. Then, without skipping a beat, Hoffman arrived at Harvard to embark on three years of gamma ray research. This work took him as far away as Argentina, where he experimented with a balloon-borne gamma-ray observatory that he designed and built...
Following his Ph.D. Hoffman received a string of fellowships that began with more gamma ray research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and eventually led to a three-year stint with a prestigious astronomical organization in England, where he met his wife, Barbara...