Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...come a long way since the early days at Alamogordo. To allay U.S. worries about being on the receiving end of weapons several times more powerful than those that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brigadier General James Cooney, radiation safety adviser to the task force, said: "The immediate radiation hazard from [an] air burst disappears after the first two minutes. Rescue . . . work can begin immediately in any area where there is life...
...additional hazard is enemy countermeasures. Whenever a bird is in flight, it is possible, at least theoretically, to interfere with the forces that guide it. The enemy can confuse the poor bird by jamming its radio frequencies. He can make it seek electronic mirages to lure it to destruction. He may even seduce it by false instructions and make it destroy its friends...
...belief in the nation's new role in the world. "Once upon a time we were a comfortable, isolated land," he said. "Now we are unavoidably the leader and the reliance of free men throughout this free world. We cannot escape from our prestige nor from its hazard." Vandenberg prayed that the world would not misinterpret U.S. motives. The U.S., he said, only wanted peace-but it must be "peace with righteousness...
...Fire & Light. Another characteristic of radiation is its ability to ionize the air, allowing the escape of static electricity. This is important in many industries where static charges are troublesome or create a fire hazard. And in electronics it is often desirable to ionize the interior of a tube. Fluorescent lamps, for instance, light up more quickly if radioactivity has prepared a path for the current...
...story alone. No one goes to see it because the Romeo is good, or stays home because he isn't. Everything centers on its not quite 14-year-old heroine; for lady stars, Juliet is a final goal and often a graveyard. There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must convey the most dewy fragrance...